Scale-Invariant Curvature Fluctuations from an Extended Semiclassical Gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-03-10 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We present an extension of the semiclassical Einstein equations which couples n-point correlation functions of a stochastic Einstein tensor to the n-point functions of the quantum stress-energy tensor. We apply this extension to calculate the quantum fluctuations during an inflationary period, where we take as a model a massive conformally coupled scalar field on a perturbed de Sitter space and describe how a renormalization independent, almost-scale-invariant power spectrum of the scalar metric perturbation is produced. Furthermore, we discuss how this model yields a natural basis for the calculation of non-Gaussianities of the considered metric fluctuations.
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@article{arxiv.1303.3241,
title = {Scale-Invariant Curvature Fluctuations from an Extended Semiclassical Gravity},
author = {Nicola Pinamonti and Daniel Siemssen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.3241},
year = {2015}
}
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16 pages, 2 figures; final version