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Title: Extended slow-roll conditions and rapid-roll conditions

Journal Article · · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
 [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Physics, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo 156-8550 (Japan)
  2. Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara 229-8558 (Japan)

We derive slow-roll conditions for a scalar field which is non-minimally coupled with gravity in a consistent manner and express spectral indices of scalar/tensor perturbations in terms of the slow-roll parameters. The conformal invariance of the curvature perturbation is proved without linear approximations. Rapid-roll conditions are also derived, and the relation with the slow-roll conditions is discussed.

OSTI ID:
22156779
Journal Information:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2008, Issue 10; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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