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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 aeHta\propto e^{Ht}, or by a collapsing universe with a(t)2/3a\propto (-t)^{2/3}.

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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