End of multi-field inflation and the perturbation spectrum

DOI10.1063/1.2803794zbMATH Open1147.83319arXivhep-th/0611293OpenAlexW2963533682MaRDI QIDQ3521702FDOQ3521702

Publication date: 26 August 2008

Published in: AIP Conference Proceedings (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the dynamics of inflation models driven by multiple, decoupled scalar fields and calculate the Hubble parameter and the amplitude of the lightest field at the end of inflation which may be responsible for interesting, or possibly dangerous cosmological consequences after inflation. The results are very simple and similar to those of the single field inflation, mainly depend on the underlying spectrum of the masses. The mass distribution is heavily constrained by the power spectrum of density perturbations P and the spectral index n. The overall mass scale gives the amplitude of P, and n is affected by the number of fields and the spacing between masses in the distribution. The drop-out effect of the massive fields makes the perturbation spectrum typically redder than the single field inflation spectrum. We illustrate this using two different mass distributions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611293

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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