Keith Olive (University of Minnesota)

Reheating, and Particle Production in No-Scale Supergravity and Starobinsky-like Models of Inflation

Abstract:
"The construction of inflationary models in the context of no-scale supergravity is discussed. The connection between no-scale models and R+R^2 gravity models is emphasized allowing for the construction of Starobinsky-like models of inflation.  Within the context of these models, the process of reheating after inflation is discussed as are mechanisms for the gravitational production of matter."

ICTP-SAIFR / IFT-UNESP