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Topological Curvatons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v3 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Topological defects may play the role of the curvatons. We propose a new mechanism of generating density perturbations from cosmological defects in inflationary models. We show several examples in which defects play crucial role in generating density perturbations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0509063,
  title  = {Topological Curvatons},
  author = {Tomohiro Matsuda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0509063},
  year   = {2009}
}

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22pages, Latex2e, to appear in PRD