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Phys. Rev. D 54, 5031–5048 (1996)

Quantum fluctuations and CMB anisotropies in one-bubble open inflation models

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Kazuhiro Yamamoto
Department of Physics, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739, Japan

Misao Sasaki and Takahiro Tanaka
Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560, Japan

Received 10 May 1996; published in the issue dated 15 October 1996

We first develop a method to calculate a complete set of mode functions that describe the quantum fluctuations generated in one-bubble open inflation models. We consider two classes of models. One is a single scalar field model proposed by Bucher, Goldhaber, and Turok and by us as an example of the open inflation scenario, and the other is a two-field model such as the "supernatural" inflation proposed by Linde and Mezhlumian. In both cases we assume the difference in the vacuum energy density between inside and outside the bubble is negligible. There are two kinds of mode functions. One kind has the usual continuous spectrum and the other has a discrete spectrum with characteristic wavelengths exceeding the spatial curvature scale. The latter can be further divided into two classes in terms of its origin. One is called the de Sitter supercurvature mode, which arises due to the global spacetime structure of de Sitter space, and the other is due to fluctuations of the bubble wall. We calculate the spectrum of quantum fluctuations in these models and evaluate the resulting large angular scale CMB anisotropies. We find there are ranges of model parameters that are consistent with observed CMB anisotropies.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.54.5031
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.5031
PACS:
04.62.+v, 98.80.Cq