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Primary gravitational waves at high frequencies I: Origin of suppression in the power spectrum

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Pith's one-line read Smoothing the inflation-to-radiation transition suppresses the amplitude of high-frequency oscillations in the regularized power spectrum of primary gravitational waves.

desk verdict Smoothing the transition with a linear function produces a power-law suppression in the high-k oscillations of the regularized PGW spectrum, but the C^0 matching raises real questions about whether adiabatic regularization still holds at those frequencies. read the letter →

arxiv 2512.03959 v2 pith:JUFW6ZYX submitted 2025-12-03 astro-ph.CO gr-qchep-th

Alipriyo Hoory , Jerome Martin , Arnab Paul , L. Sriramkumar This is my paper · ORCID
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The paper examines the power spectrum of primary gravitational waves at very small scales that never exit the Hubble radius during inflation. After showing that adiabatic regularization truncates the unphysical k squared rise and produces oscillations of fixed amplitude around zero mean for abrupt transitions, it introduces a linear smoothing of the effective potential. This smoothing is shown to convert the fixed-amplitude oscillations into a power-law decay in amplitude at high wave numbers. The result matters because it indicates that both regularization and smooth transitions are needed to keep real-space correlation functions of these waves well behaved.

What carries the argument

A linear smoothing function applied to the effective potential that governs the equation of motion for PGW modes, which controls how the regularized power spectrum behaves over scales that remain inside the Hubble radius.

What would settle it

Numerical evaluation of the regularized power spectrum using a non-linear smoothing profile or a different transition width, to check whether the oscillation amplitude still follows the predicted power-law suppression.

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Core claim

When the effective potential in the mode equation for primary gravitational waves is smoothed with a linear function across the transition from inflation to radiation domination, the amplitude of the oscillations (around the zero mean) in the regularized power spectrum at high frequencies is suppressed by a power law, in contrast to the constant amplitude obtained with instantaneous transitions.

Load-bearing premise

The effective potential for the PGW modes can be replaced by a simple linear smoothing function without breaking the validity of adiabatic regularization during the transition epochs.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Regularization alone eliminates the k squared divergence but leaves persistent oscillations of constant amplitude.
  • Smoothing the transition converts those oscillations into a decaying power-law envelope at small scales.
  • Well-behaved real-space correlation functions require both regularization and smooth transitions when modeling epochs after inflation.
  • The same smoothing effect must be checked for the subsequent radiation-to-matter transition.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • High-frequency tails of the PGW spectrum could be further suppressed in models with gradual reheating, altering expected signals for detectors sensitive to those frequencies.
  • The power-law index of the suppression may depend on the precise shape and duration of the smoothing function, suggesting a family of possible decay behaviors.
  • Similar regularization-plus-smoothing analyses could be applied to scalar curvature perturbations to compare their high-frequency behavior with that of tensor modes.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript analyzes the power spectrum of primary gravitational waves (PGWs) at high frequencies for modes that never exit the Hubble radius during inflation. It first applies adiabatic regularization under instantaneous transitions to truncate the unphysical k² rise, resulting in oscillations of fixed amplitude around a zero mean. It then smooths the effective potential governing the PGW mode equation during the inflation-to-radiation transition using a linear function and shows that this produces a power-law suppression in the amplitude of those oscillations.

Significance. If the central results hold, the work clarifies the combined roles of adiabatic regularization and transition smoothing in taming high-frequency PGW spectra and ensuring well-behaved real-space correlation functions. The explicit analytic demonstration of suppression via a concrete smoothing choice is a concrete contribution, though the absence of error estimates or cross-checks against full numerical mode evolution limits immediate applicability to observational forecasts.

major comments (1)
  1. [Smoothing of the effective potential] The linear smoothing of the effective potential (described in the abstract and the section on smoothed transitions) is only C⁰ continuous, with discontinuous first derivatives at the matching points. Adiabatic regularization relies on the background varying sufficiently slowly and smoothly; these derivative jumps can source additional non-adiabatic contributions to the mode functions at high k, potentially altering the subtracted terms and the resulting suppression. A quantitative estimate of the size of any contamination or an explicit check that the regularization procedure remains valid across the smoothed interval is required.
minor comments (2)
  1. Include error estimates or direct comparisons against numerical integration of the mode equations to quantify the accuracy of the regularized spectrum and the suppression result.
  2. Specify the exact functional form of the linear smoothing function, the value(s) chosen for the smoothing width parameter, and the range of k over which the power-law suppression is observed.

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of our manuscript and for the constructive comment on the smoothness of the effective potential. We address this point in detail below and indicate the revisions we intend to incorporate.

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  1. Referee: The linear smoothing of the effective potential (described in the abstract and the section on smoothed transitions) is only C⁰ continuous, with discontinuous first derivatives at the matching points. Adiabatic regularization relies on the background varying sufficiently slowly and smoothly; these derivative jumps can source additional non-adiabatic contributions to the mode functions at high k, potentially altering the subtracted terms and the resulting suppression. A quantitative estimate of the size of any contamination or an explicit check that the regularization procedure remains valid across the smoothed interval is required.

    Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this important technical point. The linear smoothing function we adopted is indeed only C⁰ continuous, with discontinuous first derivatives at the endpoints of the smoothing interval. This choice was made to permit an explicit analytic calculation demonstrating the power-law suppression of the high-frequency oscillations. We agree that, in principle, the derivative discontinuities could generate additional non-adiabatic contributions at sufficiently high k and that a quantitative assessment is desirable. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated subsection that (i) compares the present C⁰ results with those obtained using a C¹ smoothing function of comparable width and (ii) provides a numerical check of the mode functions across the smoothed interval to confirm that the adiabatic subtraction remains valid for the k-range of interest. These additions will include order-of-magnitude estimates of any residual contamination to the subtracted terms. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper derives the power-law suppression in the oscillation amplitude of the regularized PGW power spectrum by applying standard adiabatic regularization to the mode equation after inserting an externally chosen linear smoothing function into the effective potential. This is an explicit calculation from the differential equation rather than a redefinition, a fit renamed as a prediction, or a result justified solely by self-citation. The regularization procedure and smoothing ansatz are introduced as standard tools with stated assumptions; the suppression emerges from solving the smoothed system and is not presupposed by the inputs. No load-bearing step reduces to its own definition or to prior work by the same authors.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 2 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the applicability of adiabatic regularization to the PGW mode equation across cosmic transitions and on the validity of a linear smoothing of the effective potential; no new free parameters or invented entities are introduced beyond the choice of smoothing function.

free parameters (1)
  • linear smoothing width parameter
    The width of the linear smoothing function applied to the effective potential is chosen by hand to model a gradual transition.
assumptions (2)
  • domain assumption Adiabatic regularization removes the ultraviolet divergence in the power spectrum while preserving the physical content of the mode functions.
    Invoked to truncate the k^2 rise at high frequencies.
  • domain assumption The effective potential in the PGW equation of motion can be smoothed without altering the underlying quantum field theory framework.
    Used when replacing instantaneous transitions with a linear smoothing function.

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[Abridged] The primary gravitational waves (PGWs) are generated in the early universe from the quantum vacuum during inflation. In slow roll inflation, the power spectrum (PS) of PGWs over large scales, which leave the Hubble radius during inflation, is nearly scale-invariant. However, over very small scales, which never leave the Hubble radius, the PS of PGWs behaves as k^2, where k denotes the wave number. We examine the PS of PGWs at such high wave numbers or frequencies when the PGWs are evolved post-inflation, through the epochs of radiation and matter domination. Firstly, we argue that the PS has to be regularized in order to truncate the unphysical k^2 rise at high frequencies. Assuming instantaneous transitions from inflation to the epochs of radiation and matter domination, we carry out the method of adiabatic regularization to arrive at the PS of PGWs over a wide range of frequencies. We show that the process of regularization truncates the k^2 rise and the PS of PGWs oscillates with a fixed amplitude about a vanishing mean value over small scales or, equivalently, at high frequencies. Secondly, we smooth the transition from inflation to radiation domination (to be precise, we smooth the 'effective potential' governing the equation of motion of PGWs) and examine the impact of the smoothing on the regularized PS of PGWs. With the help of a linear smoothing function, we explicitly show that the smoother transition leads to a power-law suppression in the amplitude of the oscillations (about the zero mean value) of the regularized PS of PGWs over small scales that never leave the Hubble radius during inflation. Our analysis indicates that, when transitions are involved, regularization as well as smooth transitions seem essential to ensure that the correlation functions of the PGWs in real space are well behaved. We discuss the directions in which our results need to be extended.

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