On the physical spectra of primordial perturbations from inflation

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• Silvia Pla Garcia (King's College London)
• Monday 26 February 2024, 13:00-14:00
• CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

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It has been suggested that the effects of renormalization significantly reduce the amplitude of the inflationary spectra at scales measurable in the cosmic microwave background. Via a gauge-invariant analysis, we compute the renormalized scalar and tensor power spectra and follow their evolution in an inflating universe that undergoes a transition to an FRW phase with a growing horizon. For perturbations originating from Minkowski vacuum fluctuations, we show that the standard prediction for the spectrum on superhorizon scales is a late-time attractor, while it is UV finite at all times. Our result is independent of the equation of state after inflation, showing that the standard prediction is fully robust.

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