Constraints on Single Field Inflation

by David Pirtskhalava (EPFL Lausanne)

Monday 9 May 2016, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Berlin

seminar room 2, building 2A (DESY Hamburg)

Within an EFT approach to inflationary perturbations, I will discuss surprisingly robust constraints---both theoretical and experimental---that allow to significantly limit/rule out an overwhelming majority of single-field models of inflation.​