Cosmological perturbations in inflation with multiple sound speeds

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2012.04.017MaRDI QIDQ447401zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shi Pi, Du Wang

Publication date 3 September 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.0813

zbMATH Keywords

power spectrumcosmological perturbationcurvature perturbationmulti-speed inflation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We study a multi-field inflationary theory with separable Lagrangian, which has different speed of sound for each field. We find that the fields always coupled at perturbative level through gravitational interaction. We show that if the coupling terms among the perturbation fields are weak enough, these fields can be treated as a combination of decoupled fields, which are similar to normal modes in coupled oscillation. By virtue of such fields, the curvature perturbation at the horizon-crossing can be calculated up to the leading order of slow variation parameters via $deltamathcalN$ formalism. Explicitly, we consider a model of multi-speed DBI inflation, and calculate the power spectrum in detail. The result depends on the ratio of different speeds of sound, and shows an apparent amplification when the ratio deviates from unity.

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