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Observational Constraints on Two-field Warm Inflation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-05-23 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We study the two-field warm inflation models with a double quadratic potential and a linear temperature dependent dissipative coefficient. We derived the evolution equation of all kinds of perturbations without assuming slow-roll approximation, and obtained the curvature power spectrum at the end of inflation with a fully numerical method. Then we compute the scalar spectral index nsn_s, tensor-to-scalar ratio rr for several representative potentials, and compare our results with observational data. At last, we use Planck data to constrain the parameters in our models. This work is a natural extension of single-field warm inflation, and the aim of this work is to present some features of multi-field warm inflation using a simple two-field model.

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@article{arxiv.1905.02414,
  title  = {Observational Constraints on Two-field Warm Inflation},
  author = {Yang-yang Wang and Xiao-Min Zhang and Jian-Yang Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.02414},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

13 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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