Spectrum of density perturbations produced during inflation to leading order in a general slow-roll approximation
- 29 April 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 65 (10) , 103508
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.65.103508
Abstract
The standard calculation of the spectrum of density perturbations produced during inflation assumes (i) and (ii) Slow-roll predicts and observations require (i), but neither slow-roll nor observations require (ii). In this paper I derive formulas for the spectrum spectral index and running of the spectral index assuming only (i) and not (ii). I give a large class of observationally viable examples in which these general slow-roll formulas are accurate but the standard slow-roll formulas for the spectral index and running are incorrect.
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