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The gravitational wave background from super-inflation in Loop Quantum Cosmology

Astrophysics 2009-01-21 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate the behaviour of tensor fluctuations in Loop Quantum Cosmology, focusing on a class of scaling solutions which admit a near scale-invariant scalar field power spectrum. We obtain the spectral index of the gravitational field perturbations, and find a strong blue tilt in the power spectrum with nt2n_t \approx 2. The amplitude of tensor modes are, therefore, suppressed by many orders of magnitude on large scales compared to those predicted by the standard inflationary scenario where nt0n_t \approx 0.

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@article{arxiv.0810.0104,
  title  = {The gravitational wave background from super-inflation in Loop Quantum Cosmology},
  author = {E. J. Copeland and D. J. Mulryne and N. J. Nunes and M. Shaeri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0104},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures

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