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

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Abstract: Warm inflation model with bulk viscous pressure in the context of "intermediate inflation" where the cosmological scale factor expands as a(t)=a0exp(Atf), is studied. The characteristics of this model in slow-roll approximation and in high dissipative regime are presented in two cases: 1- Dissipative parameter Gamma as a function of scalar field phi and bulk viscous coefficient zeta as a function of energy density ho. 2- Gamma and zeta are constant parameters. Scalar, tensor perturbations and spectral indices for this scenario are obtained. The cosmological parameters appearing in the present model are constrained by recent observational data (WMAP7).


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.











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