A note on the abundance of primordial black holes: use and misuse of the metric curvature perturbation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2022.137035zbMATH Open1495.83037arXiv2201.09008OpenAlexW4220856528MaRDI QIDQ2138516FDOQ2138516

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 12 May 2022

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The formation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) through the collapse of large fluctuations in the early universe is a rare event. This manifests itself, for instance, through the non-Gaussian tail of the formation probability. To compute such probability and the abundance of PBHs, the curvature perturbation is frequently adopted. In this note we emphasize that its use does not provide the correct PBH formation probability. Through a path-integral approach we show that the exact calculation of the PBH abundance demands the knowledge of multivariate joint probabilities of the curvature perturbation or, equivalently, of all the corresponding connected correlators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09008

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Black holes (83C57) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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