Abstract
We study next-to-leading corrections to the effective action of the curvature perturbation obtained by integrating out the coupled heavy isocurvature perturbation. These corrections result from including higher order derivative operators, weighted by the mass scale of the heavy physics, in the effective theory expansion. We find that the correction terms are suppressed by the ratio of the Hubble parameter to the heavy mass scale. The corresponding corrections to the power spectrum of the curvature perturbation are presented for a simple illustrative example.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 009 |
Journal | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Volume | 2015 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 9 Mar 2015 |
Keywords
- Inflation
- Power spectrum