Steven Weinberg的《Cosmology》中提到"The possibility fo an early exponential expansion had been noticed by several authors(A.A.Starobinsky,D.Kazanas,,K.Sato) ,but at first it attracted little attention. It was Alan Guth who incited interest in the possibility of inflation by noting what it was good for. "
所以 应该是A.A.Starobinsky,D.Kazanas,K.Sato 提出, Alan Guth 将这个理论发展起来的。