Primordial gravitational wave enhancement

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/2/025004MaRDI QIDQ4915558zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Maria G. Romania, N. C. Tsamis, R. P. Woodard

Publication date 11 April 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1696

zbMATH Keywords

Hubble frictionHubble parameterinflationprimordial gravitational wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational waves (83C35) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: We reconsider the enhancement of primordial gravitational waves that arises from a quantum gravitational model of inflation. A distinctive feature of this model is that the end of inflation witnesses a brief phase during which the Hubble parameter oscillates in sign, changing the usual Hubble friction to anti-friction. An earlier analysis of this model was based on numerically evolving the graviton mode functions after guessing their initial conditions near the end of inflation. The current study is based on an equation which directly evolves the normalized square of the magnitude. We are also able to make a very reliable estimate for the initial condition using a rapidly converging expansion for the sub-horizon regime. Results are obtained for the energy density per logarithmic wave number as a fraction of the critical density. These results exhibit how the enhanced signal depends upon the number of oscillatory periods; they also show the resonant effects associated with particular wave numbers.

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