Gravitational Waves Produced during the Inflationary Epoch

详细而全面地描述了理解暴胀引力波产生所需的数学工具。在膨胀的宇宙中，基于量子场论成功地再现了暴胀引力波功率谱。功率谱是用早期宇宙演化的一个简单的宇宙学模型来计算的，在这个模型中，一系列Bogoliubov变换导致暴胀引力波。此外，本文还讨论了最近在间接和直接探测暴胀引力波方面的努力以及探测的意义。

A detailed and comprehensive description of the mathematical tools needed to understand the generation of inflationary gravitational waves. The inflationary gravitational wave power spectrum is successfully reproduced based on a quantum field theory in an expanding universe. The power spectrum is computed using a simple cosmological model of the evolution of the early universe, in which a sequence of Bogoliubov transformations result in the inflationary gravitational waves. Furthermore, the recent efforts into indirectly and directly detecting inflationary gravitational waves and the significance of a detection is discussed.