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Reheating in Inflationary Cosmology

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Current Topics in Astrofundamental Physics: Primordial Cosmology

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Abstract

According to inflationary theory, (almost) all elementary particles populating the universe were created during the process of reheating of the universe after inflation [1]. It makes this process extremely important. However, for many years the theory of reheating remained the least developed part of inflationary theory. Even now, when many features of the mechanism of reheating are understood, the literature on this subject is still full of contradictory statements. The main purpose of the present lectures is to discuss recent developments in the theory of preheating based on the work which I have done in collaboration with Lev Kofman and Alexei Starobinsky and Patrick Greene [2, 3, 4, 5]. This work investigated preheating in chaotic inflation with an account taken of the expansion of the universe and the backreaction of created particles, including the effects of their rescattering. A detailed account of our results can be found in [4, 5]; here I will concentrate on the main picture, emphasizing qualitative rather than quantitative aspects of the theory.

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Linde, A. (1998). Reheating in Inflationary Cosmology. In: Sánchez, N., Zichichi, A. (eds) Current Topics in Astrofundamental Physics: Primordial Cosmology. NATO ASI Series, vol 511. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5046-0_3

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