Large-scale curvature perturbations with spatial and time variations of the inflaton decay rate

Details Large-scale curvature perturbations with spatial and time variations of the inflaton decay rate Large-scale curvature perturbations with spatial and time variations of the inflaton decay rate

2003-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306416v2

JCAP 0308:007,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LaTeX file, 21 pages. A few typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2003/08/007

We present a gauge-invariant formalism to study the evolution of the curvature and entropy perturbations in the case in which spatial and time variations of the inflaton decay rate into ordinary matter are present. During the reheating stage after inflation curvature perturbations can vary with time on super-horizon scales sourced by a a gauge-invariant inflaton decay rate perturbation. We show that the latter is a function not only of the spatial variations of the decay rate generated during inflation, as envisaged in a recently proposed scenario, but also of the time variation of the inflaton decay rate during reheating. If only the second source is present, the final curvature perturbation at the end of the reheating stage is proportional to the curvature perturbation at the beginning of reheating with a coefficient of proportionality which can be either smaller or larger than unity depending upon the underlying physics governing the time variation of the inflaton decay rate. As a consequence, we show that the standard consistency relation between the amplitude of curvature perturbations, the amplitude of tensor perturbations and the tensor spectral index of one-single field models of inflation is violated and there is the possibility that the tensor-to-curvature amplitude ratio is larger than in the standard case.

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