Warm-intermediate inflationary universe model with viscous pressure in high dissipative regime (Q2248774)

In this paper a model of inflation (named ``intermediate inflation'') is studied. In this model the expansion during the inflation era is milder than de Sitter expansion [\(a(t)\propto \exp(At^f)\) with \(0<f<1\)]. This behavior is achieved postulating that the inflaton scalar field \(\phi\) decays with a decay rate \(\Gamma\) into an imperfect viscous fluid with a viscous pressure \(\Pi=-3\zeta H\), where \(H\) is the Hubble constant and \(\zeta\) a phenomenological coefficient of bulk viscosity. Two cases are studied: 1) \(\Gamma=\Gamma(\phi)\), \(\zeta\propto\rho\) (where \(\rho\) is the density of the fluid; 2) Constant \(\Gamma\) and \(\zeta\), both cases in the high dissipative regime (i.e., \(\Gamma\ll H\)). In both cases all the phenomenological parameters (spectrum of curvature perturbations, scalar/tensor ratio, scalar and tensor spectral indices \(n_s\) and \(n_g\), running of scalar spectral index \(\alpha_s\)) are derived and confronted with WMAP7 results.