Gravitational waves in ultra-slow-roll and their anisotropy at two loops
Abstract
We compute the non-Gaussian corrections to the energy density and anisotropies of gravitational waves induced during the radiation era after an ultra-slow-roll phase of inflation by using a diagrammatic approach, and present the corresponding Feynman rules. Our two-loop calculation includes both the intrinsic non-Gaussianity of the inflaton perturbation and the non-Gaussianity arising from the nonlinear relation between the latter and the curvature perturbation , which we find to be subdominant with respect to the former. We apply our formalism to an analytical model in which the ultra-slow-roll phase is followed by a constant-roll stage with a nonvanishing second slow-roll parameter , and address the renormalization of the one-loop scalar power spectrum in this scenario.
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@article{arxiv.2410.09014,
title = {Gravitational waves in ultra-slow-roll and their anisotropy at two loops},
author = {Juan Álvarez Ruiz and Julián Rey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.09014},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
34 pages, 4 figures. Figures corrected and discussion improved. Version accepted for publication in JCAP