Floquet analysis of self-resonance in single-field models of inflation [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00835


We review 51 models of single-field inflation, paying special attention to the possibility that self-resonance of the unstable inflaton perturbations leads to reheating. We compute Floquet exponents for the models that are consistent with current cosmological data. We find five models that exhibit a strong instability, but only in one of them — KKLT inflation — the equation of state efficiently approaches that of radiation.

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K. Turzyński and M. Wieczorek
Fri, 3 Aug 18
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