Opening the reheating box in multifield inflation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/12/022zbMATH Open1492.83127arXiv2105.03301OpenAlexW4206545389MaRDI QIDQ5064658FDOQ5064658

Authors: Jérôme Martin, Lucas Pinol 

Publication date: 16 March 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The robustness of multi-field inflation to the physics of reheating is investigated. In order to carry out this study, reheating is described in detail by means of a formalism which tracks the evolution of scalar fields and perfect fluids in interaction (the inflatons and their decay products). This framework is then used to establish the general equations of motion of the background and perturbative quantities controlling the evolution of the system during reheating. Next, these equations are solved exactly by means of a new numerical code. Moreover, new analytical techniques, allowing us to interpret and approximate these solutions, are developed. As an illustration of a physical prediction that could be affected by the micro-physics of reheating, the amplitude of non-adiabatic perturbations in double inflation is considered. It is found that ignoring the fine-structure of reheating, as usually done in the standard approach, can lead to differences as big as $sim50\mathrm{\%}$, while our semi-analytic estimates can reduce this error to $sim10\mathrm{\%}$. We conclude that, in multi-field inflation, tracking the perturbations through the details of the reheating process is important and, to achieve good precision, requires the use of numerical calculations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03301

zbMATH Keywords

inflationcosmological perturbation theoryphysics of the early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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