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arxiv: 1006.0196 · v2 · pith:65IEJXJKnew · submitted 2010-06-01 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · gr-qc· hep-ph· hep-th

One-loop corrections to the power spectrum in general single-field inflation

classification 🌌 astro-ph.CO gr-qchep-phhep-th
keywords correctionsinflationone-looppowersingle-fieldsoundspectrumspeed
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We perform a thorough computation of the one-loop corrections from both scalar and tensor degrees of freedom to the power spectrum of curvature fluctuations for non-canonical Lagrangians in single-field inflation. We consider models characterized by a small sound speed c_{s}, which produce large non-Gaussianities. As expected, the corrections turn out to be inversely proportional to powers of c_{s}; evaluating their amplitudes it is then possible to derive some theoretical bounds on the sound speed by requesting the conditions necessary for perturbation theory to hold.

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