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One-loop corrections to the curvature perturbation from inflation
An estimate of the one-loop correction to the power spectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation is given, assuming it is generated during a phase of single-field, slow-roll inflation. The loop correction splits into two parts, which can be calculated separately: a purely quantum-mechanical contribution which is generated from the interference among quantized field modes around the time when they cross the horizon, and a classical contribution which comes from integrating the effect of field modes which have already passed far beyond the horizon. The loop correction contains logarithms which may invalidate the use of naive perturbation theory for cosmic microwave background (CMB) predictions when the scale associated with the CMB is exponentially different from the scale at which the fundamental theory governing inflation is formulated. This may have important consequences for the comparison of chaotic inflationary models with forthcoming high-precision satellite data
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsISSN
1475-7516Publisher
Institute of PhysicsExternal DOI
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2Volume
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006Department affiliated with
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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