Late time solution for interacting scalar in accelerating spaces
Abstract
We consider stochastic inflation in an interacting scalar field in spatially homogeneous accelerating space-times with a constant principal slow roll parameter . We show that, if the scalar potential is scale invariant (which is the case when scalar contains quartic self-interaction and couples non-minimally to gravity), the late-time solution on accelerating FLRW spaces can be described by a probability distribution function (PDF) which is a function of only, where is the scalar field and denotes the Hubble parameter. We give explicit late-time solutions for , and thereby find the order corrections to the Starobinsky-Yokoyama result. This PDF can then be used to calculate e.g. various point functions of the (self-interacting) scalar field, which are valid at late times in arbitrary accelerating space-times with constant.
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@article{arxiv.1508.07874,
title = {Late time solution for interacting scalar in accelerating spaces},
author = {Tomislav Prokopec},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07874},
year = {2015}
}
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13 pages