Infrared Logarithms in Minisuperspace Inflation
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2018-05-23 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We examine the emergence of the infrared logarithms in the cosmological perturbation theory applied to the minisuperspace scalar slow-roll inflation. Not surprisingly, in the single scalar field model the curvature perturbation is conserved and no behavior appears, where is the background scale factor of the universe. On the other hand, in the presence of a spectator scalar the 'th order perturbation theory gives an correction to . However, a nonperturbative estimate shows that actually becomes the sum of a constant and a mildly evolving pieces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1801.02034,
title = {Infrared Logarithms in Minisuperspace Inflation},
author = {Ali Kaya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02034},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
v2: 15 pages, revtex4-1, comments and references added, to appear in Phys. Lett. B