General Slow-Roll Spectrum for Gravitational Waves
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-10 v3 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We derive the power spectrum P_\psi(k) of the gravitational waves produced during general classes of inflation with second order corrections. Using this result, we also derive the spectrum and the spectral index in the standard slow-roll approximation with new higher order corrections.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0408039,
title = {General Slow-Roll Spectrum for Gravitational Waves},
author = {Jinn-Ouk Gong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0408039},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, no figure ; Discussion slightly expanded and minor typos corrected