Generalizing Starobinskĭı’s Formalism to Yukawa Theory & to Scalar QED
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During inflation quantum effects from massless, minimally coupled scalars and gravitons can be strengthened so much that perturbation theory breaks down. To follow the subsequent evolution one must employ a nonperturbative resummation. Starobinskĭı has developed such a technique for simple scalar theories. I discuss recent progress in applying this technique to more complicated models.
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