Meanings
- not comparablesciencesMultiplied by e.
Thus, over the scale time, there is an e-fold likelihood of increase as compared to decrease.
- not comparablesciencesConferring multiplication by e.
So while some vertices have two children and others three, in the long run we can expect e-fold branching.
- not comparablesciencese times.
plural e-folds
- sciencesA multiplication by a power of e.
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An obvious difference between plateau-like models like this and the simplest inflationary models, like V(#92;phi)#61;#92;lambda#92;phi⁴, is that the simplest models require only one parameter and absolutely no tuning of parameters to obtain 60 or more e-folds of inflation, while the plateau-like models require three or more parameters and must be fine-tuned to obtain even a minimal amount of inflation.
2013, Anna Iijas, Abraham Loeb, Paul Steinhardt, “Inflationary Paradigm in trouble after Planck 2013”, in Phys. Lett. B, volume 723, numbers 4–5, →Bibcode, →DOI, page 262
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