PPT Slide

Signatures of Warm Inflation

(Taylor & Berera, 2000, Phys Rev D)

- Standard inflation has no interactions - so universe is

supercooled.

-Warm inflation includes interactions.

- Warm inflation predicts different tensor/scalar ratio.

- No Consistency Relation in warm inflation.

- Mechanism for isocurvature modes - may be detectable by

Planck.

- Predicted amplitude of

perturbations for warm

and supercooled

inflation.