Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-11-28
JCAP 0604:009,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 3 figures, references added, discussion of long-wavelenth perturbations expanded
Scientific paper
10.1088/1475-7516/2006/04/009
We discuss nontrivial features of the large scale structure of the universe in the simplest curvaton model proposed in our paper astro-ph/9610219. The amplitude of metric perturbations in this model takes different values in different parts of the universe. The spatial distribution of the amplitude looks like a web consisting of exponentially large cells. Depending on the relation between the cell size l_0 and the scale of the horizon l_H, one may either live in a part of the universe dominated by gaussian perturbations (inside a cell with l_0 >> l_H), or in the universe dominated by nongaussian perturbations (for l_0 << l_H). We show that the curvaton contribution to the total amplitude of adiabatic density perturbations can be strongly suppressed if the energy density of the universe prior to the curvaton decay was dominated not by the classical curvaton field but by the curvaton particles produced during reheating. We describe the curvaton-inflaton transmutation effect: The same field in different parts of the universe may play either the role of the curvaton or the role of the inflaton. Finally, we discuss an interplay between the curvaton web and anthropic considerations in the string theory landscape.
Linde Andrei
Mukhanov Viatcheslav
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