TY - JOUR
T1 - Two-point correlators revisited
T2 - Fast and slow scales in multifield models of inflation
AU - Ghersi, José T.Gálvez
AU - Frolov, Andrei V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl.
PY - 2017/5/23
Y1 - 2017/5/23
N2 - We study the structure of two-point correlators of the inflationary field fluctuations in order to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the existing methods to calculate primordial spectra. We present a description motivated by the separation of the fast and slow evolving components of the spectrum which is based on Cholesky decomposition of the field correlator matrix. Our purpose is to rewrite all the relevant equations of motion in terms of slowly varying quantities. This is important in order to consider the contribution from high-frequency modes to the spectrum without affecting computational performance. The slow-roll approximation is not required to reproduce the main distinctive features in the power spectrum for each specific model of inflation.
AB - We study the structure of two-point correlators of the inflationary field fluctuations in order to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the existing methods to calculate primordial spectra. We present a description motivated by the separation of the fast and slow evolving components of the spectrum which is based on Cholesky decomposition of the field correlator matrix. Our purpose is to rewrite all the relevant equations of motion in terms of slowly varying quantities. This is important in order to consider the contribution from high-frequency modes to the spectrum without affecting computational performance. The slow-roll approximation is not required to reproduce the main distinctive features in the power spectrum for each specific model of inflation.
KW - cosmological perturbation theory
KW - ination
KW - physics of the early universe
KW - quantum cosmology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065705294&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/05/047
DO - 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/05/047
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85065705294
SN - 1475-7516
VL - 2017
JO - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JF - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
IS - 5
M1 - 047
ER -