Second order perturbations during inflation beyond slow-roll

被引:13
作者
Huston, Ian [1 ]
Malik, Karim A. [1 ]
机构
[1] Queen Mary Univ London, Astron Unit, Sch Phys & Astron, London E1 4NS, England
来源
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2011年 / 10期
关键词
inflation; physics of the early universe; cosmological perturbation theory; FLUCTUATIONS; GENERATION; EVOLUTION; UNIVERSE; MODELS;
D O I
10.1088/1475-7516/2011/10/029
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We numerically calculate the evolution of second order cosmological perturbations for an inflationary scalar field without resorting to the slow-roll approximation or assuming large scales. In contrast to previous approaches we therefore use the full non-slow-roll source term for the second order Klein-Gordon equation which is valid on all scales. The numerical results are consistent with the ones obtained previously where slow-roll is a good approximation. We investigate the effect of localised features in the scalar field potential which break slow-roll for some portion of the evolution. The numerical package solving the second order Klein-Gordon equation has been released under an open source license and is available for download.
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