Relic gravitons from stiff curvature perturbations

The tensor modes reentering the Hubble radius when the plasma is dominated by a stiff fluid lead to a spectral energy density whose blue slope depends on the total post-inflationary sound speed. This result gets however corrected by a secondary (gauge-dependent) term coming from the curvature inhomo...

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Auteur principal: Massimo Giovannini
Format: Article
Langue:English
Publié: Elsevier 2020-11-01
Collection:Physics Letters B
Accès en ligne:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320306043