Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-10-15
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 083516
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
31 pages, 15 eps figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.083516
We show explicitly some exciting features of double-inflation: (i) it can often lead to strongly correlated adiabatic and entropy (isocurvature) power spectra. (ii) The two-field slow-roll consistency relations can be violated when the correlation is large at Hubble crossing. (iii) The spectra of adiabatic and entropy perturbations can be strongly scale-dependent and tilted toward either the red or blue. These effects are typically due to a light or time-dependent entropy mass and a non-negligible angular velocity in field space during inflation. They are illustrated via a multi-parameter numerical search for correlations in two concrete models. The correlation is found to be particularly strong in a supersymmetric scenario due to rapid growth of entropy perturbations in the tachyonic region separating the two inflationary stages. Our analysis suggests that realistic double-inflation models will provide a rich and fruitful arena for the application of future cosmic data sets and new approximation schemes which go beyond slow-roll.
Bassett Bruce A.
Parkinson David
Tsujikawa Shinji
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