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分析宇宙气泡碰撞

Analyzing Cosmic Bubble Collisions

Roberto Gobbetti, Matthew Kleban

摘要:

我们开发了一套控制,解析近似研究气泡碰撞对宇宙学的影响。我们将碰撞引起的暴胀子场的初始扰动展开为一般的幂级数,并根据展开式中的系数确定暴胀子场的时间演化。在模型中,观测者的气泡经历了足够的慢卷膨胀来解决平坦性问题,在薄壁极限中,膨胀中只有一个系数与观测宇宙学有关,允许几乎与模型无关的预测。我们讨论了两种方法来确定初始扰动的暴胀和影响的迹象(一个热点或冷点的宇宙微波背景温度图)。最后,我们分析了与厚壁气泡碰撞的影响,即远离薄壁极限。

英文摘要:

We develop a set of controlled, analytic approximations to study the effects of bubble collisions on cosmology. We expand the initial perturbation to the inflaton field caused by the collision in a general power series, and determine its time evolution during inflation in terms of the coefficients in the expansion. In models where the observer's bubble undergoes sufficient slow-roll inflation to solve the flatness problem, in the thin wall limit only one coefficient in the expansion is relevant to observational cosmology, allowing nearly model-independent predictions. We discuss two approaches to determining the initial perturbation to the inflaton and the implications for the sign of the effect (a hot or cold spot on the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature map). Lastly, we analyze the effects of collisions with thick-wall bubbles, i.e. away from the thin-wall limit.

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