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Reheating and Entropy Perturbations in Fibre Inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-09-05 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study reheating in some one and two field realizations of {\it Fibre Inflation}. We find that reheating begins with a phase of preheating in which long wavelength fluctuation modes are excited. In two field models there is a danger that the parametric amplification of infrared fluctuations in the second scalar field - associated with an entropy mode - might induce an instability of the curvature fluctuations. We show that, at least in the models we consider, the entropy mode has a sufficiently large mass to prevent this instability. Hence, from the point of view of reheating the models we consider are well-behaved.

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@article{arxiv.1808.03393,
  title  = {Reheating and Entropy Perturbations in Fibre Inflation},
  author = {Bao-Min Gu and Robert Brandenberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.03393},
  year   = {2018}
}

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20 pages, 18 figures