Published December 15, 1985 | Version v1
Journal article

Minimum amount of inflation to solve the flatness and horizon problems

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218

Description

In this note we show that for natural initial conditions at the Planck time the horizon problem requires only twice as much inflation for its solution as does the flatness problem. We further argue that with these initial conditions the Universe is open rather than closed, and was dominated by gravitational curvature at the onset of inflation

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev., D
Journal Volume
32
Journal Issue
12
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
3303-3306
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
17030044
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; ENERGY DENSITY; ENTROPY; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TIME DEPENDENCE; UNIVERSE
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES