Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/05/017
Keywords
inflation; gravitational waves and CMBR polarization
Funding
- Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC STG) [279617]
- STFC [ST/FOO2998/1]
- DOE [DE-FG02-90ER40542]
- Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G000581/1, ST/J000434/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/J000434/1, ST/G000581/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We explore the consequences of a detection of primordial tensor fluctuations for general single-field models of inflation. Using the effective theory of inflation, we propose a generalization of the Lyth bound that applies to models of inflation coupled to Einstein gravity. Our strongest bound applies to all single-field models with two-derivative kinetic terms for the scalar fluctuations and is always stronger than the corresponding bound for slow-roll models. This shows that non-trivial dynamics of the inflaton can't evade the Lyth bound. We also present a weaker, but more universal bound that holds when the Null Energy Condition (NEC) is satisfied at horizon crossing.
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