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arxiv: astro-ph/0009060 · v1 · submitted 2000-09-05 · 🌌 astro-ph · gr-qc

A relativistic calculation of super-Hubble suppression of inflation with thermal dissipation

classification 🌌 astro-ph gr-qc
keywords inflationperturbationsdissipationsuper-hubblesuppressionthermalevolutionfactor
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We investigated the evolution of the primordial density perturbations produced by inflation with thermal dissipation. A full relativistic analysis on the evolution of initial perturbations from the warm inflation era to a radiation-dominated universe has been developed. The emphasis is on tracking the ratio between the adiabatic and the isocurvature mode of the initial perturbations. This result is employed to calculate a testable factor: the super-Hubble suppression of the power spectrum of the primordial perturbations. We show that based on the warm inflation scenario, the super-Hubble suppression factor, $s$, for an inflation with thermal dissipation is at least 0.5. This prediction does not depend on the details of the model parameters. If $s$ is larger than 0.5, it implies that the friction parameter $\Gamma$ is larger than the Hubble expansion parameter $H$ during the inflation era.

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