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New exact solutions for inflationary cosmological perturbations

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

From a general ansatz for the effective potential of cosmological perturbations we find new, exact solutions in single-scalar-field inflation: a three parameter family of exact inflationary solutions that encompasses all exact solutions that have been known previously (power-law inflation, Easther's model, and a generalised version of Starobinsky's solution). The main feature of this new family is that the spectral indices are scale dependent.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0005542,
  title  = {New exact solutions for inflationary cosmological perturbations},
  author = {Jerome Martin and Dominik J. Schwarz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0005542},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures, introduction improved, references added, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B