On the inflationary perturbations of massive higher-spin fields
On the inflationary perturbations of massive higher-spin fields
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DOI:
10.1088/1475-7516/2017/07/046
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发表时间:
2017-05
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
A. Kehagias;A. Riotto
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作者:
A. Kehagias;A. Riotto
Cosmological perturbations of massive higher-spin fields are generated during inflation, but they decay on scales larger than the Hubble radius as a consequence of the Higuchi bound. By introducing suitable couplings to the inflaton field, we show that one can obtain statistical correlators of massive higher-spin fields which remain constant or decay very slowly outside the Hubble radius. This opens up the possibility of new observational signatures from inflation.