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Resonant multiple peaks in the induced gravitational waves

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-05-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We identify analytically a multiple-peak structure in the energy-density spectrum of induced gravitational waves (GWs) generated at second-order from a primordial scalar perturbations also with multiple(nn) peaks at small scales kik_{*i}. The energy-density spectrum of induced GWs exhibits at most Cn+12C_{n+1}^2 and at least nn peaks at wave-vectors kij(ki+kj)/3k_{ij}\equiv(k_{*i}+k_{*j})/\sqrt{3} due to resonant amplification, and, under the narrow-width approximation, it contains an universal factor that can be interpreted as a result of momentum conservation. We also extend these discussions to the case of non-Gaussian perturbations.

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@article{arxiv.1901.10152,
  title  = {Resonant multiple peaks in the induced gravitational waves},
  author = {Rong-Gen Cai and Shi Pi and Shao-Jiang Wang and Xing-Yu Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.10152},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

23 pages, 5 figures, add constraints from PBH and GW, accepted for publication in JCAP