Speaker
Konstantinos Dimopoulos
(Lancaster University)
Description
I will briefly introduce cosmic inflation and dark energy and combine them in quintessential inflation. A stochastic spectrum of primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) is expected from inflation, but it is unobservable in the near future. I will discuss some ways to boost the inflation generated PGWs, in quintessential inflation and beyond, which may result in characteristic observable spectra. If indeed observed, such PGWs can shed light on the background theory.
