Phys. Rev. D 66, 043520 (2002) [6 pages]Observational test of two-field inflationReceived 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
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