Accuracy of slow-roll formulae for inflationary perturbations: implications for primordial black hole formation

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2006-11-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611818v2

JCAP 0701:011,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages with 5 figures. Published in JCAP

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2007/01/011

We investigate the accuracy of the slow-roll approximation for calculating perturbation spectra generated during inflation. The Hamilton-Jacobi formalism is used to evolve inflationary models with different histories. Models are identified for which the scalar power spectra computed using the Stewart-Lyth slow-roll approximation differ from exact numerical calculations using the Mukhanov perturbation equation. We then revisit the problem of primordial black holes generated by inflation. Hybrid-type inflationary models, in which the inflaton is trapped in the minimum of a potential, can produce blue power spectra and an observable abundance of primordial black holes. However, this type of model can now be firmly excluded from observational constraints on the scalar spectral index on cosmological scales. We argue that significant primordial black hole formation in simple inflation models requires contrived potentials in which there is a period of fast roll towards the end of inflation. For this type of model, the Stewart-Lyth formalism breaks down. Examples of such inflationary models and numerical computations of their scalar fluctuation spectra are presented.

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