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Gravitational waves in ultra-slow-roll and their anisotropy at two loops

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-04-15 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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 δϕ\delta\phi and the non-Gaussianity arising from the nonlinear relation between the latter and the curvature perturbation R\mathcal{R}, 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 η\eta, 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