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ABSTRACT

1.WHAT DOES INFLATION PREDICT?

2.THE PREDICTIONS OF INFLATION

3.TESTING THE PREDICTIONS

3.1.Spatial flatness

3.2.Growing-mode perturbations

3.3.Gaussianity and adiabaticity

3.4.Tensor and vector perturbations

4.DISCRIMINATING INFLATIONARY MODELS

4.1.Power-law behaviour

4.2.Deviations from the power-law

4.3.Reconstruction without slow-roll

5.OUTLOOK

BIBLIOGRAPHY