Quantum Effects during Inflation
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🌌 astro-ph
gr-qchep-ph
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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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