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Inflationary predictions at small gamma

Astrophysics 2009-11-22 v1

Abstract

This paper explores single field inflation models with a constant, but arbitrary speed of sound c_s, obtained by deforming the kinetic energy terms to a Dirac-Born-Infeld form. Allowing c_s<1 provides a simple parameterization of non-gaussianity. The dependence of inflationary observables on the parameter c_s is considered in the leading order slow roll approximation. The results show that in most cases the dependence is actually rather weak for the range of c_s allowed by existing bounds on non-gaussianity.

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@article{arxiv.0812.1409,
  title  = {Inflationary predictions at small gamma},
  author = {Ewa Czuchry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.1409},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, 1 figure

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