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arxiv: 1104.4500 · v2 · pith:35Z2CMBBnew · submitted 2011-04-22 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · hep-ph

Generalized Slow Roll for Non-Canonical Kinetic Terms

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We show that the generalized slow-roll approach for calculating the power spectrum where the inflationary slow roll parameters are neither small nor slowly varying can be readily extended to models with non-canonical kinetic terms in the inflaton action. For example, rapid sound speed variations can arise in DBI models with features in the warp factor leading to features in the power spectrum. Nonetheless there remains a single source function for deviations that is simply related to the power spectrum. Empirical constraints on this source function can be readily interpreted in the context of features in the inflaton potential or sound speed.

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