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Long-Wavelength Modes of Cosmological Scalar Fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We give a numerical analysis of long-wavelength modes in the WKB approximation of cosmological scalar fields coupled to gravity via ξϕ2R\xi\phi^{2}R. Massless fields are coupled conformally at ξ=1/6\xi=1/6. Conformality can be preserved for fields of nonzero mass by shifting ξ\xi. We discuss implications for density perturbations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0510009,
  title  = {Long-Wavelength Modes of Cosmological Scalar Fields},
  author = {Marcin Jankiewicz and Thomas W. Kephart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0510009},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, 10 figures, several stylistic improvements