Metric perturbations in two-field inflation

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1995-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9511029v1

Phys.Rev. D53 (1996) 5437-5445

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.53.5437

We study the metric perturbations produced during inflation in models with two scalar fields evolving simultaneously. In particular, we emphasize how the large-scale curvature perturbation $\zeta$ on fixed energy density hypersurfaces may not be conserved in general for multiple field inflation due to the presence of entropy as well as adiabatic fluctuations. We show that the usual method of solving the linearized perturbation equations is equivalent to the recently proposed analysis of Sasaki and Stewart in terms of the perturbed expansion along neighboring trajectories in field-space. In the case of a separable potential it is possible to compute in the slow-roll approximation the spectrum of density perturbations and gravitational waves at the end of inflation. In general there is an inequality between the ratio of tensor to scalar perturbations and the tilt of the gravitational wave spectrum, which becomes an equality when only adiabatic perturbations are possible and $\zeta$ is conserved.

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