The Inflationary Wavefunction and its Initial Conditions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-05-30 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
We explore the effect of initial conditions on the inflationary wavefunction and their consequences for the observed spectrum of primordial fluctuations. In a class of models with a sudden transition into inflation we find that, for a reasonable set of assumptions about the reheat temperature and the number of e-foldings, it is possible for initial conditions set by a pre-inflationary epoch to have an observable effect.
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@article{arxiv.1109.6566,
title = {The Inflationary Wavefunction and its Initial Conditions},
author = {Daniel Carney and Willy Fischler and Sonia Paban and Navin Sivanandam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.6566},
year = {2015}
}
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