How Inflationary Gravitons Affect Gravitational Radiation
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2022-06-27 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We include the single graviton loop contribution to the linearized Einstein equation. Explicit results are obtained for one loop corrections to the propagation of gravitational radiation. Although suppressed by a minuscule loop-counting parameter, these corrections are enhanced by the square of the number of inflationary e-foldings. One consequence is that perturbation theory breaks down for a very long epoch of primordial inflation. Another consequence is that the one loop correction to the tensor power spectrum might be observable, in the far future, after the full development of 21cm cosmology.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2107.13905,
title = {How Inflationary Gravitons Affect Gravitational Radiation},
author = {L. Tan and N. C. Tsamis and R. P. Woodard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.13905},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
29 pages, 1 figure, 4 tables, uses LaTeX2e, version 2 has some typos corrected for publication