Inflation and de Sitter Holography
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چکیده
We develop the relation between de Sitter holography and inflation in detail with particular attention to cosmic density perturbations. We set up the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism to present a systematic treatment of the logarithmic corrections to a scale invariant spectrum. Our computations can be interpreted without reference to holography, as strong infra-red effects in gravity. This point of view may be relevant for the fine-tuning problems inherent to inflation. ∗[email protected] †[email protected]
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