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Preheating with Non-Standard Kinetic Term

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-05-12 v3 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider reheating after inflation in theories with a non-standard kinetic term. We show that the equation that exhibits parametric resonance is the Hill-Whittaker equation, which is a particular case of the more general Hill equation. This equation is in general more unstable than the Mathieu equation, such that narrow resonance preheating may be efficient in theories with a non-canonical kinetic term.

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@article{arxiv.0808.0936,
  title  = {Preheating with Non-Standard Kinetic Term},
  author = {Jean Lachapelle and Robert H. Brandenberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0936},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures, a couple of typos corrected, a sentence added to the discussion section

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