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