Precision of inflationary predictions and recent CMB anisotropy data

Abstract

Inflationary predictions of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy are often based on the slow-roll approximation. We study the precision of these predictions and compare them with the recent data from BOOMERanG and MAXIMA-1.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures; talk at "Cosmology and Particle Physics 2000," Verbier (Switzerland), July 17 - 28, 2000