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A new algorithm for calculating the curvature perturbations in stochastic inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-03-06 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We propose a new approach for calculating the curvature perturbations produced during inflation in the stochastic formalism. In our formalism, the fluctuations of the e-foldings are directly calculated without perturbatively expanding the inflaton field and they are connected to the curvature perturbations by the δN\delta N formalism. The result automatically includes the contributions of the higher order perturbations because we solve the equation of motion non-perturbatively. In this paper, we analytically prove that our result (the power spectrum and the nonlinearity parameter) is consistent with the standard result in single field slow-roll inflation. We also describe the algorithm for numerical calculations of the curvature perturbations in more general inflation models.

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@article{arxiv.1308.4754,
  title  = {A new algorithm for calculating the curvature perturbations in stochastic inflation},
  author = {Tomohiro Fujita and Masahiro Kawasaki and Yuichiro Tada and Tomohiro Takesako},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.4754},
  year   = {2014}
}

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14 pages, no figure

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