%0 Journal Article %T Cosmology with non-minimal scalar field: graceful entrance into inflation %A M. V. Libanov %A V. A. Rubakov %A P. G. Tinyakov %J Physics %D 1998 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01269-6 %X We propose a scenario of the beginning of inflation in which the non-vacuum value of the scalar field that drives inflation develops dynamically due to the non-minimal coupling to gravity. In this scenario, inflation emerges as an intermediate stage of the evolution of the Universe, well after the Planck epoch, from a fairly general initial state. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9807553v1