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arxiv: 1109.6566 · v3 · submitted 2011-09-29 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph.CO

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The Inflationary Wavefunction and its Initial Conditions

Daniel Carney , Willy Fischler , Sonia Paban , Navin Sivanandam
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keywords conditionsinitialeffectinflationarywavefunctionassumptionsclassconsequences
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We explore the effect of initial conditions on the inflationary wavefunction and their consequences for the observed spectrum of primordial fluctuations. In a class of models with a sudden transition into inflation we find that, for a reasonable set of assumptions about the reheat temperature and the number of e-foldings, it is possible for initial conditions set by a pre-inflationary epoch to have an observable effect.

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