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Quantum modes in DBI inflation: exact solutions and constraints from vacuum selection

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 نشر من قبل William H. Kinney
 تاريخ النشر 2008
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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 تأليف William H. Kinney




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We study a two-parameter family of exactly solvable inflation models with variable sound speed, and derive a corresponding exact expression for the spectrum of curvature perturbations. We generalize this expression to the slow roll case, and derive an approximate expression for the scalar spectral index valid to second order in slow roll. We apply the result to the case of DBI inflation, and show that for certain choices of slow roll parameters, the Bunch-Davies limit (a) does not exist, or (b) is sensitive to stringy physics in the bulk, which in principle can have observable signatures in the primordial power spectrum.

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