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Improved WKB analysis of Slow-Roll Inflation
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Submitted 24 Oct 2005
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The authors' main claim Although leading and next-to-leading results in the slow-roll parameters depend on the approximation technique used in the computation, we find that the inflationary theoretical predictions obtained may reach the accuracy required by planned observations.
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We extend the WKB method for the computation of cosmological perturbations during inflation beyond leading order and provide the power spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations to second order in the slow-roll parameters. Our method does not require that the slow-roll parameters be constant. Although leading and next-to-leading results in the slow-roll parameters depend on the approximation technique used in the computation, we find that the inflationary theoretical predictions obtained may reach the accuracy required by planned observations. In two technical appendices, we compare our techniques and results with previous findings.
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| s0 | We extend the WKB method for the computation of cosmological perturbations during inflation beyond leading order and provide the power spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations to second order in the slow-roll parameters. | contribution 1.00 | 0.96 | 0.48 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | Our method does not require that the slow-roll parameters be constant. | method 0.52 | 0.81 | 0.06 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | Although leading and next-to-leading results in the slow-roll parameters depend on the approximation technique used in the computation, we find that the inflationary theoretical predictions obtained may reach the accuracy required by planned observations. | interpretation 0.64 | 0.94 | 0.50 | hedged possibility 0.87 |
| s3 | In two technical appendices, we compare our techniques and results with previous findings. | contribution 0.56 | 0.81 | 0.03 | asserted 0.92 |
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We extend the WKB method for the computation of cosmological perturbations during inflation beyond leading order and provide the power spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations to second order in the slow-roll parameters. Our method does not require that the slow-roll parameters be constant. Although leading and next-to-leading results in the slow-roll parameters depend on the approximation technique used in the computation, we find that the inflationary theoretical predictions obtained may reach the accuracy required by planned observations. In two technical appendices, we compare our techniques and results with previous findings.
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Instead, we employ the Green's function method introduced by Stewart and Gong [ref] which is valid to any order[See [ref] for various extensions and applications of this method and [ref] for other related methods.].
Frame-dependence of higher-order inflationary observables in scalar-tensor theories · Jordan frame analysis · 1.00
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The analytical expressions for the primordial power spectra have been the subject of various works in the last two decades [ref] , and are currently known at third order in the Hubble flow functions [ref] .
Cosmic Inflation at the Crossroads · Data compression using the slow-roll power spectra · 0.84
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In the conventional SR picture [ref] , the inflaton field that drives inflation evolves slowly down its potential, and the rate of change of its velocity is negligible.
Constant-Roll Inflation: Analytical Formulae for Power Spectrum and Implications for Induced Gravitational Waves · Introduction · 1.00
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In addition to the calculation based on the Green’s function method, derivations based on other approximation schemes are available in the literature, such as the uniform approximation [ref] , the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation [ref] , or the method of comparison equations [ref] .
Third-order corrections to the slow-roll expansion: calculation and constraints with Planck, ACT, SPT, and BICEP/Keck · Introduction · 0.90
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