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Fresh inflation and decoherence of super Hubble fluctuations

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

I study a stochastic approach to the recently introduced fresh inflation model for super Hubble scales. I find that the state loses its coherence at the end of the fresh inflationary period as a consequence of the damping of the interference function in the reduced density matrix. This fact should be a consequence of a) the relative evolutions of both the scale factor and the horizon and b) the additional thermal and dissipative effects. This implies a relevant difference with respect to supercooled inflationary scenarios which require a very rapid expansion of the scale factor to give the decoherence of super Hubble fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0106086,
  title  = {Fresh inflation and decoherence of super Hubble fluctuations},
  author = {Mauricio Bellini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0106086},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

version with minor changes. To appear in Phys. Rev. D