Dec 1 – 5, 2025
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Thomas Hertog: On the Origin of Inflation

Dec 3, 2025, 11:00 AM
15m
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Description

The no-boundary wave function can explain the origin of inflation but it favors a low amount of inflation, in conflict with observations. It has been thought that this puzzling property is universal, i.e. independent of the model of inflaton, posing a real conundrum for inflationary theory. We revisit this problem for k-inflation and give evidence that the no-boundary probabilities can be reversed in k-inflation, leading to the prediction of a large amount of inflation.

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