Creating perturbations from a decaying field during inflation

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  • A. Mazumdar
  • L. Wang
Typically, the fluctuations generated from a decaying field during inflation do not contribute to the large scale structures. In this paper, we provide an example where it is possible for a field which slowly rolls and then decays during inflation to create all the matter perturbations with a slightly red-tilted spectral index, with no isocurvature perturbations, and with a possibility of a departure from Gaussian fluctuations.
Original languageEnglish
JournalPhysical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Volume87
Issue number8
Pages (from-to)083501
Number of pages4
ISSN1550-7998
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2013

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