non-standard inflationary models

Non-standard inflationary models predicting oscillatory features in the primordial power spectrum were hinted at by "Psst... maybe I'm not just any ordinary theory; I have something to tell you about inflation.

Technical definition

Non-standard inflationary models deviate from the standard ΛCDM framework by introducing novel mechanisms, such as particle production or additional degrees of freedom, that drive inflation in a manner distinct from the concordance model.

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