Metric preheating and radiative decay in single-field inflation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/05/003zbMATH Open1490.83079arXiv2002.01820OpenAlexW3021306397MaRDI QIDQ5069112FDOQ5069112

Authors: Jérôme Martin, Theodoros Papanikolaou, Lucas Pinol, Vincent Vennin 

Publication date: 8 April 2022

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

Abstract: At the end of inflation, the inflaton oscillates at the bottom of its potential and these oscillations trigger a parametric instability for scalar fluctuations with wavelength $lambda$ comprised in the instability band $(3Hm{)}^{-1/2}<lambda<H^{-1}$, where $H$ is the Hubble parameter and $m$ the curvature of the potential at its minimum. This "metric preheating" instability, which proceeds in the narrow resonance regime, leads to various interesting phenomena such as early structure formation, production of gravitational waves and formation of primordial black holes. In this work we study its fate in the presence of interactions with additional degrees of freedom, in the form of perturbative decay of the inflaton into a perfect fluid. Indeed, in order to ensure a complete transition from inflation to the radiation-dominated era, metric preheating must be considered together with perturbative reheating. We find that the decay of the inflaton does not alter the instability structure until the fluid dominates the universe content. As an application, we discuss the impact of the inflaton decay on the production of primordial black holes from the instability. We stress the difference between scalar field and perfect fluid fluctuations and explain why usual results concerning the formation of primordial black holes from perfect fluid inhomogeneities cannot be used, clarifying some recent statements made in the literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01820

zbMATH Keywords

inflationprimordial black holesphysics of the early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Black holes (83C57) Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K50) Gravitational waves (83C35) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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