On the one-loop corrections to inflation. II: The consistency relation

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2007.04.012zbMATH Open1186.83172arXivhep-th/0612138OpenAlexW2039065269MaRDI QIDQ2369799FDOQ2369799

Martin S. Sloth

Publication date: 21 June 2007

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

Abstract: In this paper we extend our previous treatment of the one-loop corrections to inflation. Previously we calculated the one-loop corrections to the background and the two-point correlation function of inflaton fluctuations in a specific model of chaotic inflation. We showed that the loop corrections depend on the total number of e-foldings and estimated that the effect could be as large as a few percent in a lambda-phi-four model of chaotic inflation. In the present paper we generalize the calculations to general inflationary potentials. We find that effect can be as large as 70% in the simplest model of chaotic inflation with a quadratic inflationary potential. We discuss the physical interpretation of the effect in terms of the tensor-to-scalar consistency relation. Finally, we discuss the relation to the work of Weinberg on quantum contributions to cosmological correlators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612138

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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