Dynamics of the Inflationary Era

Abstract

There is very strong circumstantial evidence that there was an inflationary epoch very early in the history of the universe. In this lecture I will describe how we might be able to piece together some understanding of the dynamics during and immediately after the inflationary epoch.

Comments: Forty page review paper based on a lecture presented at the Pritzker Symposium on the Status of the Inflationary Cosmology. Includes 14 figures