Open inflation with an arbitrary false vacuum mass
- 15 November 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 52 (10) , 5538-5548
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.52.5538
Abstract
We calculate the power spectrum of adiabatic density perturbations in an open inflationary model in which inflation occurs in two stages. First an epoch of old inflation creates a large, smooth universe, solving the horizon and homogeneity problems. Then an open universe emerges through the nucleation of a single bubble, with constant density hypersurfaces inside the bubble having constant negative spatial curvature. An epoch of ‘‘slow roll’’ inflation, shortened to give <1 today, occurs within the bubble, which contains our entire observable universe. In this paper we compute the resulting density perturbations in the same ‘‘new thin wall’’ approximation used in a previous paper, but for an arbitrary positive mass of the inflaton field in the false vacuum satisfying /≥2 where H is the Hubble constant during old inflation.
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