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Explosive particle production in non-commutative inflation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-01-14 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider a model of inflation which has recently been proposed in the literature and where inflation is induced by corrections to the energy density coming from the non-commutativity of spacetime. We show that the very rapid inflationary expansion typical of this model is responsible for a burst of particle production which ends inflation and leads to a radiation-dominated phase. We analytically estimate the energy density of these particles and we confront the results with more precise numerical calculations. We estimate the number of inflationary e-folds before the back-reaction of the radiation energy density overcomes the non-commutative effects and terminate inflation naturally.

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@article{arxiv.1210.5373,
  title  = {Explosive particle production in non-commutative inflation},
  author = {Hideki Perrier and Ruth Durrer and Massimiliano Rinaldi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.5373},
  year   = {2013}
}

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