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Warm Inflation with a General Form of the Dissipative Coefficient

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-04-15 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We propose and investigate a general form of the dissipative coefficient Γ=CϕTm/ϕm1\Gamma=C_{\phi}T^{m}/\phi^{m-1} in warm inflation. We focus on discussing the strong dissipative processes r=Γ/3H1r=\Gamma/3H\gg1 in the thermal state of approximate equilibrium. To this toy model, we give the slow-roll conditions, the amplitude and the index of the power spectrum under the general form of dissipative coefficient. Furthermore, the monomial potential and the hybrid-like potential are analyzed specifically. We conclude that the m=0,3m=0,3 cases are worthy further investigation especially.

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@article{arxiv.0903.0685,
  title  = {Warm Inflation with a General Form of the Dissipative Coefficient},
  author = {Yi Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.0685},
  year   = {2010}
}

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24 pages, no figures, to be published on JCAP

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