Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1996-12-03
Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 3346-3357
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
26 pages, Latex, 2 figures, In press Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.55.3346
In the standard picture, the inflationary universe is in a supercooled state which ends with a short time, large scale reheating period, after which the universe goes into a radiation dominated stage. An alternative is proposed here in which the radiation energy density smoothly decreases all during an inflation-like stage and with no discontinuity enters the subsequent radiation dominated stage. The scale factor is calculated from standard Friedmann cosmology in the presence of both radiation and vacuum energy density. A large class of solutions confirm the above identified regime of non-reheating inflation-like behavior for observationally consistent expansion factors and not too large a drop in the radiation energy density. One dynamical realization of such inflation without reheating is from warm inflation type scenarios. However the solutions found here are properties of the Einstein equations with generality beyond slow-roll inflation scenarios. The solutions also can be continuously interpolated from the non-reheating type behavior to the standard supercooled limit of exponential expansion, thus giving all intermediate inflation-like behavior between these two extremes. The temperature of the universe and the expansion factor are calculated for various cases. Implications for baryongenesis are discussed. This non-reheating, inflation-like regime also appears to have some natural features for a universe that is between nearly flat and open.
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