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arxiv: astro-ph/0402299 · v1 · submitted 2004-02-12 · 🌌 astro-ph · hep-ph

Constraining Warm Inflation with the Cosmic Microwave Background

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keywords inflationwarmgammainflatonmodelscalarbackgroundcoefficient
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We discuss the spectrum of scalar density perturbations from warm inflation when the friction coefficient $\Gamma$ in the inflaton equation is dependent on the inflaton field. The spectral index of scalar fluctuations depends on a new slow-roll parameter constructed from $\Gamma$. A numerical integration of the perturbation equations is performed for a model of warm inflation and gives a good fit to the WMAP data for reasonable values of the model's parameters.

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