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arxiv: astro-ph/0310757 · v1 · submitted 2003-10-27 · 🌌 astro-ph · gr-qc· hep-ph

Quantum Effects during Inflation

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keywords masslesseffectexpansiongiveninflationlargestparticlesallowing
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The expansion of spacetime alters the energy-time uncertainty principle, allowing virtual particles to persist longer than in flat space. For a given expansion the effect is largest for massless particles which are not conformally invariant. For a given particle type the effect is largest for inflation. I exhibit these two principles in the context of massless fermions which are Yukawa-coupled to massless scalars. I also review the many related examples which have been studied recently.

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