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Horizon crossing and inflation with large \eta
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I examine the standard formalism of calculating curvature perturbations in inflation at horizon crossing, and derive a general relation which must be satisfied for the horizon crossing formalism to be valid. This relation is satisfied for the usual cases of power-law and slow roll inflation. I then consider a model for which the relation is strongly violated, and the curvature perturbation evolves rapidly on superhorizon scales. This model has Hubble slow roll parameter $\eta = 3$, but predicts a scale-invariant spectrum of density perturbations. I consider the case of hybrid inflation with large $\eta$, and show that such solutions do not solve the ``$\eta$ problem'' in supergravity. These solutions correspond to field evolution which has not yet relaxed to the inflationary attractor solution, and may make possible new, more natural models on the string landscape.
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