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arxiv: 1708.01587 · v1 · pith:QCZMTYKBnew · submitted 2017-08-04 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · gr-qc· hep-th

Possible Signatures of Inflationary Particle Content: Spin-2 Fields

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We study the imprints of a massive spin-2 field on inflationary observables, and in particular on the breaking of consistency relations. In this setup, the minimal inflationary field content interacts with the massive spin-2 field through dRGT interactions, thus guaranteeing the absence of Boulware-Deser ghostly degrees of freedom. The unitarity requirement on spinning particles, known as Higuchi bound, plays a crucial role for the size of the observable signal.

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