Evolution of the curvature perturbations during warm inflation
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2010-04-28 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
This paper considers warm inflation as an interesting application of multi-field inflation. Delta-N formalism is used for the calculation of the evolution of the curvature perturbations during warm inflation. Although the perturbations considered in this paper are decaying after the horizon exit, the corrections to the curvature perturbations sourced by these perturbations can remain and dominate the curvature perturbations at large scales. In addition to the typical evolution of the curvature perturbations, inhomogeneous diffusion rate is considered for warm inflation, which may lead to significant non-Gaussianity of the spectrum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0905.0308,
title = {Evolution of the curvature perturbations during warm inflation},
author = {Tomohiro Matsuda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.0308},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
23 pages, 1 figure, fixed references, accepted for publication in JCAP