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Discrimination between inflaton potentials <br />

Lyth bound: <br />

Smaller r <br />

(i) Large-­‐field inflation (e.g., chaotic inflation, 1983) <br />

During inflation <strong>the</strong> field evolves <br />

over <strong>the</strong> large-­‐distance: <br />

<br />

(ii) Small-­‐field inflation (e.g., natural inflation, 1990) <br />

During inflation <strong>the</strong> field evolves <br />

over <strong>the</strong> small-­‐distance: <br />

A. Linde (young version) <br />

K. Freese <br />

(iii) Hybrid inflation (1994) <br />

Inflation ends due to <strong>the</strong> waterfall transition <br />

to <strong>the</strong> global minimum. <br />

A. Linde (current version)

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