Duality Invariance of Cosmological Perturbation Spectra
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-31 v2 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
I show that cosmological perturbation spectra produced from quantum fluctuations in massless or self-interacting scalar fields during an inflationary era remain invariant under a two parameter family of transformations of the homogeneous background fields. This relates slow-roll inflation models to solutions which may be far from the usual slow-roll limit. For example, a scale-invariant spectrum of perturbations in a minimally coupled, massless field can be produced by an exponential expansion with , or by a collapsing universe with .
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9809062,
title = {Duality Invariance of Cosmological Perturbation Spectra},
author = {David Wands},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9809062},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, Latex with Revtex. Hamiltonian formulation added and discussion expanded. Version to appear in Phys Rev D