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Improved Estimates of Cosmological Perturbations

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We recently derived exact solutions for the scalar, vector and tensor mode functions of a single, minimally coupled scalar plus gravity in an arbitrary homogeneous and isotropic background. These solutions are applied to obtain improved estimates for the primordial scalar and tensor power spectra of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background.

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0307463,
  title  = {Improved Estimates of Cosmological Perturbations},
  author = {N. C. Tsamis and R. P. Woodard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0307463},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

31 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX 2epsilon, this version corrects an embarrasing mistake (in the published version) for the parameter q_C. Affected eqns are 105, 109-110, 124, 148-153 and 155-157