Primordial Gravitational Waves From Open Inflation

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1997-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9701117v2

Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 7461-7479

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

40 pages, TEX with phyzzx macro, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.55.7461

We calculate the spectrum of gravitational waves generated during inflation in open $(\Omega _0<1)$ inflationary models. In such models an initial epoch of old inflation solves the horizon and flatness problems, and during this first epoch of inflation the quantum state of the graviton field rapidly approaches the Bunch-Davies vacuum. Then old inflation ends by the nucleation of a single bubble, inside of which there is a shortened epoch of slow-roll inflation giving $\Omega _0<1$ today. In this paper we re-express the Bunch-Davies vacuum for the graviton field in terms of the hyperbolic modes inside the bubble and propagate these modes forward in time into the present era. We derive the expression for the contribution from these gravity waves to the cosmic microwave background anisotropy including the effect of a finite energy difference across the bubble wall.

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