Conservation of second-order cosmological perturbations in a scalar field dominated universe
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 64, FIN-00014, University of Helsinki (Finland)
We discuss second-order cosmological perturbations on super-Hubble scales, in a scalar field dominated universe, such as during single field inflation. In this contest we show that the gauge-invariant curvature perturbations defined on uniform density and comoving hypersurfaces coincide and that perturbations are adiabatic in the large scale limit. Since it has been recently shown that the uniform density curvature perturbation is conserved on large scales if perturbations are adiabatic, we conclude that both the uniform density and comoving curvature perturbations at second order, in a scalar field dominated universe, are conserved. Finally, in the light of this result, we comment on the variables recently used in the literature to compute non-Gaussianities.
- OSTI ID:
- 20706160
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 71, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.061301; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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