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تسجيل مستخدم جديدIsocurvature Perturbations and Reheating in Multi-Field Inflation
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Inflationary models involving more than one scalar field naturally produce isocurvature perturbations. However, while these are fairly well studied, less is known about their evolution through the reheating epoch, when the inflationary fields decay into the standard constituents of the present universe. In this paper, by modelling reheating perturbatively, we calculate the power spectrum of the non-adiabatic pressure perturbation in three different inflationary models. We show that the isocurvature can grow large initially, but decays faster than the pressure perturbations. When reheating ends, the isocurvature is negligible for the double quadratic and double quartic inflationary models. For the product exponential potential, which features large isocurvature at the end of inflation, the isocurvature decays during reheating and is around five orders of magnitudes smaller than the pressure perturbation at the end of reheating.
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