Inflation and non-equilibrium dynamics

Journal Article · Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989 · Annals of Physics (New York); (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(89)90144-9· OSTI ID:5338089

Pi, S ^[1]

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1. Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (US)

Herman Feshbach is a premier nuclear physicist. Although I do no research in his physics subfield, I have found it useful to apply methods developed in that area to early universe investigations that rely on a field-theoretic description for the time evolution of pure and/or mixed initial states. On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, I offer for his enjoyment this essay in which I describe how time-dependent Hartree--Fock methods and their generalizations to mixed states are used in attempts to establish various cosmological scenarios, in particular, inflation. {copyright} 1989 Academic Press, Inc.

• OSTI ID: 5338089
• Journal Information: Annals of Physics (New York); (USA), Vol. 192:2; ISSN 0003-4916
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
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QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
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TIME DEPENDENCE
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CORRECTIONS
COSMOLOGICAL MODELS
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TENSORS
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