Spectrum of density fluctuations in Brans-Dicke chaotic inflation

Details Spectrum of density fluctuations in Brans-Dicke chaotic inflation Spectrum of density fluctuations in Brans-Dicke chaotic inflation

1996-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9606018v1

Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 560-572

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

26 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript file, two figures included

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.55.560

In the context of Brans--Dicke theories, eternal inflation is described in such a way that the evolution of the inflaton field is determined by the value of the Planck mass in different regions of the universe. The Planck mass is given by the values of the Brans--Dicke field, which is coupled to the scalar curvature in the Lagrangian. We first calculate the joint probability distributions of the inflaton and Brans--Dicke fields, in order to compute the 3--volume ratios of homogeneous regions with arbitrary values of the fields still undergoing inflation with respect to thermalized regions. From these volume ratios one is able to extract information on the values of the fields measured by a typical observer for a given potential and, in particular, the typical value of the Planck mass at the end of inflation. In this paper, we investigate volume ratios using a regularization procedure suggested by Vilenkin, and the results are applied to powerlaw and double--well potentials. The spectrum of density fluctuations is calculated for generic potentials, and we discuss the likelihood of various scenarios that could tell us whether our region of the universe is typical or untypical depending on very general bounds on the evolution of the Brans--Dicke field.

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