Primordial Adiabatic Fluctuations from Cosmic Defects
- 14 August 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 85 (7) , 1370-1373
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.85.1370
Abstract
In the context of “two-metric” theories of gravity there is the possibility that cosmic defects will produce a spectrum of primordial adiabatic density perturbations, when the speed characterizing the defect-producing scalar field is much larger than the speed characterizing gravity and standard model particles. This model will exactly mimic the standard predictions of inflationary models, with the exception of a small non-Gaussian signal which could be detected by future experiments.Keywords
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