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Phys. Rev. D 66, 043520 (2002) [6 pages]

Observational test of two-field inflation

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David Wands1, Nicola Bartolo2,3,4, Sabino Matarrese2,3, and Antonio Riotto3
1Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2EG, United Kingdom
2Dipartimento di Fisica di Padova “G. Galilei,” Via Marzolo 8, Padova I-35131, Italy
3INFN, Sezione di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, Padova I-35131, Italy
4Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom

Received 17 May 2002; published 19 August 2002

We study adiabatic and isocurvature perturbation spectra produced by a period of cosmological inflation driven by two scalar fields. We show that there exists a model-independent consistency condition for all two-field models of slow-roll inflation, despite allowing for model-dependent linear processing of curvature and isocurvature perturbations during and after inflation on super-horizon scales. The scale dependence of all spectra are determined solely in terms of slow-roll parameters during inflation and the dimensionless cross-correlation between curvature and isocurvature perturbations. We present additional model-dependent consistency relations that may be derived in specific two-field models, such as the curvaton scenario.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.043520
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.043520
PACS:
98.80.Cq