Simple Bounds from the Perturbative Regime of Inflation

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2008-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/0802.2290v3

JCAP0808:007,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

26 pages, 4 figures, v3; added references and clarifications, typos corrected, published version

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2008/08/007

We examine the conditions under which a perturbative expansion around an inflating background is valid. When inflation is driven by a single field with a general sound speed, we find a lower limit on the sound speed related to the amplitude of the inflationary power spectrum. Generalizing the sound speed constraints to include scale dependence can limit the number of e-folds obtained in the perturbative regime and restrict otherwise apparently viable models. We also show that for models with a low sound speed, eternal inflation cannot occur in the perturbative regime.

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