Thursday, October 20, 2011

1109.6566 (Daniel Carney et al.)

The Inflationary Wavefunction and its Initial Conditions    [PDF]

Daniel Carney, Willy Fischler, Sonia Paban, Navin Sivanandam
We explore the effect of initial conditions on the inflationary wavefunction and their consequences for the observed spectrum of primordial fluctuations. In a class of models with a sudden transition into inflation we find that, for a reasonable set of assumptions about the reheat temperature and the number of e-foldings, it is possible for initial conditions set by a pre-inflationary epoch to have an observable effect.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6566

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