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Late time solution for interacting scalar in accelerating spaces

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-11-18 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider stochastic inflation in an interacting scalar field in spatially homogeneous accelerating space-times with a constant principal slow roll parameter ϵ\epsilon. 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) ρ\rho which is a function of φ/H\varphi/H only, where φ=φ(x)\varphi=\varphi(\vec x) is the scalar field and H=H(t)H=H(t) denotes the Hubble parameter. We give explicit late-time solutions for ρρ(φ/H)\rho\rightarrow \rho_\infty(\varphi/H), and thereby find the order ϵ\epsilon corrections to the Starobinsky-Yokoyama result. This PDF can then be used to calculate e.g. various nn-point functions of the (self-interacting) scalar field, which are valid at late times in arbitrary accelerating space-times with ϵ=\epsilon= 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

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