Constraining Warm Inflation with the Cosmic Microwave Background
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We discuss the spectrum of scalar density perturbations from warm inflation when the friction coefficient in the inflaton equation is dependent on the inflaton field. The spectral index of scalar fluctuations depends on a new slow-roll parameter constructed from . A numerical integration of the perturbation equations is performed for a model of warm inflation and gives a good fit to the WMAP data for reasonable values of the model's parameters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0402299,
title = {Constraining Warm Inflation with the Cosmic Microwave Background},
author = {Lisa M. H. Hall and Ian G. Moss and Arjun Berera},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0402299},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX 4