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Generalised tensor fluctuations and inflation
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Dario Cannone,
David Wands
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Volume: 2015, Issue: 01, Start page: 029
Swansea University Author:
Gianmassimo Tasinato
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DOI (Published version): 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/01/029
Abstract
Using an effective field theory approach to inflation, we examine novel properties of the spectrum of inflationary tensor fluctuations, that arise when breaking some of the symmetries or requirements usually imposed on the dynamics of perturbations. During single-clock inflation, time-reparameteriza...
| Published in: | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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2015
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21707 |
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Using an effective field theory approach to inflation, we examine novel properties of the spectrum of inflationary tensor fluctuations, that arise when breaking some of the symmetries or requirements usually imposed on the dynamics of perturbations. During single-clock inflation, time-reparameterization invariance is broken by a time-dependent cosmological background. In order to explore more general scenarios, we consider the possibility that spatial diffeomorphism invariance is also broken by effective mass terms or by derivative operators for the metric fluctuations in the Lagrangian. We investigate the cosmological consequences of the breaking of spatial diffeomorphisms, focussing on operators that affect the power spectrum of fluctuations. We identify the operators for tensor fluctuations that can provide a blue spectrum without violating the null energy condition, and operators for scalar fluctuations that lead to non-conservation of the comoving curvature perturbation on superhorizon scales even in single-clock inflation. In the last part of our work, we also examine the consequences of operators containing more than two spatial derivatives, discussing how they affect the sound speed of tensor fluctuations, and showing that they can mimic some of the interesting effects of symmetry breaking operators, even in scenarios that preserve spatial diffeomorphism invariance. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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01 |
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029 |