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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.

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@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

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