Gravitational waves in preheating
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-31 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study the evolution of gravitational waves through the preheating era that follows inflation. The oscillating inflaton drives parametric resonant growth of scalar field fluctuations, and although super-Hubble tensor modes are not strongly amplified, they do carry an imprint of preheating. This is clearly seen in the Weyl tensor, which provides a covariant description of gravitational waves.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0002089,
title = {Gravitational waves in preheating},
author = {Daniel Tilley and Roy Maartens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0002089},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 8 figures, Revtex