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Trans-Planckian footprints in inflationary cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-25 v3 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider a minimum uncertainty vacuum choice at a fixed energy scale Lambda as an effective description of trans-Planckian physics, and discuss its implications for the linear perturbations of a massless scalar field in power-law inflationary models. We find possible effects with a magnitude of order H/\Lambda in the power spectrum, in analogy with previous results for de-Sitter space-time.

Cite

@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0303035,
  title  = {Trans-Planckian footprints in inflationary cosmology},
  author = {G. L. Alberghi and R. Casadio and A. Tronconi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0303035},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, final version to appear in Physics Letters B