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STOLAS: STOchastic LAttice Simulation of cosmic inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-12-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We develop a C++ package of the STOchastic LAttice Simulation (STOLAS) of cosmic inflation. It performs the numerical lattice simulation in the application of the stochastic-δN\delta N formalism. STOLAS can directly compute the three-dimensional map of the observable curvature perturbation without estimating its statistical properties. In its application to two toy models of inflation, chaotic inflation and Starobinsky's linear-potential inflation, we confirm that STOLAS is well-consistent with the standard perturbation theory. Furthermore, by introducing the importance sampling technique, we have success in numerically sampling the current abundance of primordial black holes in a non-perturbative way. The package is available at https://github.com/STOchasticLAtticeSimulation/STOLAS_dist.

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@article{arxiv.2405.10692,
  title  = {STOLAS: STOchastic LAttice Simulation of cosmic inflation},
  author = {Yurino Mizuguchi and Tomoaki Murata and Yuichiro Tada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.10692},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

34 pages, 10 figures; v2 matches the accepted version in JCAP