Solution

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During inflation , so . For expansion,
and the arrows point toward . Equivalently, accelerated expansion makes the curvature contribution rapidly decay. A sufficiently long inflationary epoch therefore drives a broad range of initial conditions extremely close to spatial flatness.

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