Recovering the Inflationary Potential
Astrophysics
2013-11-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
A procedure is developed for the recovery of the inflationary potential over the interval that affects astrophysical scales (). The amplitudes of the scalar and tensor metric perturbations and their power-spectrum indices, which can in principle be inferred from large-angle CBR anisotropy experiments and other cosmological data, determine the value of the inflationary potential and its first two derivatives. From these, the inflationary potential can be reconstructed in a Taylor series and the consistency of the inflationary hypothesis tested. A number of examples are presented, and the effect of observational uncertainties is discussed.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9307035,
title = {Recovering the Inflationary Potential},
author = {M. S. Turner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9307035},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
13 pages LaTeX, 6 Figs. available on request, FNAL-Pub-93/182-A