Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2007/iii/paper-62/3/a/solution

With an approximately constant Hubble parameter , the scale factor is after a choice of normalization. Integrate and choose the integration constant so that the future endpoint is :
Substituting in the FLRW metric gives . This is Conformal time during de Sitter expansion.

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