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Cosmological perturbations in multiple-field inflation

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We analyze cosmological perturbations to the linear order in the context of inflation with an arbitrary number of scalar fields. The fields take values on a non-trivial manifold with a positive-definite metric and are non-minimally coupled to Einstein gravity. The perturbations are decomposed into three different types. The scalar-type perturbations are presented in a gauge-ready form without fixing the temporal gauge condition, as well as in terms of gauge-invariant variables. The gauge-ready method enables us to impose different gauge conditions which are most suitable to the problem at hand. We quantize the scalar perturbations and obtain the solutions.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0506334,
  title  = {Cosmological perturbations in multiple-field inflation},
  author = {Joydev Lahiri and Gautam Bhattacharya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0506334},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages, twocolumn, RevTex

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