Inflation and the Fine-Tuning Problem

Details Inflation and the Fine-Tuning Problem Inflation and the Fine-Tuning Problem

1996-11-26

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9611063v2

Phys.Rev.D56:1836-1840,1997

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

5 pages in Latex (uses Revtex), no figures. Minor changes to the text only

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1836

I describe a recently derived stochastic approach to inflaton dynamics which can address some serious problems associated with conventional inflationary theory. Using this theory I derive an exact solution to the stochastic dynamics for the case of a $\lambda\phi^4$ potential and use it to study the generated primordial density fluctuations. It is found that on both sub and super-horizon scales the theory predicts gaussian fluctuations to a very high accuracy along with a near scale-invariant spectrum. Of most interest is that the amplitude constraint is found to be satisfied for $\lambda\sim 10^{-5}$ rather than $\lambda\sim 10^{-14}$ of the conventional theory. This represents a dramatic easing of the fine-tuning constraints, a feature likely to generalize to a wide range of potentials.

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