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A note on inflation and transplanckian physics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3 Astrophysics

Abstract

In this paper we consider the influence of transplanckian physics on the CMBR anisotropies produced by inflation. We consider a simple toy model that allows for analytic calculations and argue on general grounds, based on ambiguities in the choice of vacuum, that effects are expected with a magnitude of the order of H/ΛH/\Lambda, where HH is the Hubble constant during inflation and Λ\Lambda the scale for new physics, e.g. the Planck scale.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0203198,
  title  = {A note on inflation and transplanckian physics},
  author = {Ulf H. Danielsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0203198},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages. v2: typos corrected and references added. v3: final version accepted for publication by PRD. Improved discussion of adiabatic vacuum

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