The non-adiabatic pressure in general scalar field systems
Astrophysics
2010-01-07 v3
Abstract
We discuss the non-adiabatic or entropy perturbation, which controls the evolution of the curvature perturbation in the uniform density gauge, for a scalar field system minimally coupled to gravity with non-canonical action. We highlight the differences between the sound and the phase speed in these systems, and show that the non-adiabatic pressure perturbation vanishes in the single field case, resulting in the conservation of the curvature perturbation on large scales.
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@article{arxiv.0809.3518,
title = {The non-adiabatic pressure in general scalar field systems},
author = {Adam J. Christopherson and Karim A. Malik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.3518},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
6 pages, revtex4; v2: typos corrected, results clarified, version being submitted; v3: version accepted for publication