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A generalized method of constraining Warm Inflation with CMB data

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-10-29 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A thorough MCMC analysis of any inflationary model against the current cosmological data is essential for assessing the validity of such a model as a viable inflationary model. Warm Inflation, producing both thermal and quantum fluctuations, yield a complex form of scalar power spectrum, which, in general, cannot be directly written as a function of the comoving wavenumber kk, an essential step to incorporate the primordial spectra into CAMB to do an MCMC analysis through CosmoMC/Cobaya. In this paper, we devised an efficient generalized methodology to mould the WI power spectra as a function of kk, without the need of slow-roll approximation of the inflationary dynamics. The methodology is directly applicable to any Warm Inflation model, including the ones with complex forms of the dissipative coefficient and the inflaton potential.

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@article{arxiv.2407.06032,
  title  = {A generalized method of constraining Warm Inflation with CMB data},
  author = {Umang Kumar and Suratna Das},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06032},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

25 pages plus 1 title page, single column, JCAP style, 14 figures, 6 tables, V2: 2 figures, some discussion and a few references added, conclusions unchanged. Version accepted for publication in JCAP

R2 v1 2026-06-28T17:33:01.675Z