A relativistic calculation of super-Hubble suppression of inflation with thermal dissipation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/21/308zbMATH Open0977.83129arXivastro-ph/0009060OpenAlexW2044464452MaRDI QIDQ4528048FDOQ4528048

Wolung Lee, Lizhi Fang

Publication date: 29 January 2001

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigated the evolution of the primordial density perturbations produced by inflation with thermal dissipation. A full relativistic analysis on the evolution of initial perturbations from the warm inflation era to a radiation-dominated universe has been developed. The emphasis is on tracking the ratio between the adiabatic and the isocurvature mode of the initial perturbations. This result is employed to calculate a testable factor: the super-Hubble suppression of the power spectrum of the primordial perturbations. We show that based on the warm inflation scenario, the super-Hubble suppression factor, $s$, for an inflation with thermal dissipation is at least 0.5. This prediction does not depend on the details of the model parameters. If $s$ is larger than 0.5, it implies that the friction parameter $Gamma$ is larger than the Hubble expansion parameter $H$ during the inflation era.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009060

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyinflationHubble radiusthermal dissipationprimordial perturbations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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