Inflaton
Hypothetical field that may have driven cosmic inflation / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a particle/quantum field posited in cosmology. For a general rise in the level of prices, see Inflation. For other uses of "inflation", see Inflation (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Instanton.
The inflaton field is a hypothetical scalar field which is conjectured to have driven cosmic inflation in the very early universe.[1][2][3] The field, originally postulated by Alan Guth,[1] provides a mechanism by which a period of rapid expansion from 10−35 to 10−34 seconds after the initial expansion can be generated, forming a universe consistent with observed spatial isotropy and homogeneity.