Duality invariance of cosmological perturbation spectra
- 11 June 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 60 (2) , 023507
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.60.023507
Abstract
I show that cosmological perturbation spectra produced from quantum fluctuations in massless or self-interacting scalar fields during an inflationary era remain invariant under a two parameter family of transformations of the homogeneous background fields. This relates slow-roll inflation models to solutions which may be far from the usual slow-roll limit. For example, a scale-invariant spectrum of perturbations in a minimally coupled, massless field can be produced by an exponential expansion with or by a collapsing universe with
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