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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/02/013
Keywords
inflation; cosmological perturbation theory
Funding
- Fondecyt project [1130777]
- Simons Foundation
- Ramon y Cajal program
- Unidad de Excelencia Maria de Maeztu Grant [MDM-2014-0369, FPA2013-46570-C2-2-P]
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
- Basque Government [IT-979-16]
- Spanish Ministry MINECO [FPA2015-64041-C2-1P]
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In multi-field inflation one or more non-adiabatic modes may become light, potentially inducing large levels of isocurvature perturbations in the cosmic microwave background. If in addition these light modes are coupled to the adiabatic mode, they influence its evolution on super horizon scales. Here we consider the case in which a non-adiabatic mode becomes approximately massless (''ultralight) while still coupled to the adiabatic mode, a typical situation that arises with pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons or moduli. This ultralight mode freezes on super-horizon scales and acts as a constant source for the curvature perturbation, making it grow linearly in time and effectively suppressing the isocurvature component. We identify a Stuckelberg-like emergent shift symmetry that underlies this behavior. As inflation lasts for many e-folds, the integrated effect of this source enhances the power spectrum of the adiabatic mode, while keeping the non-adiabatic spectrum approximately untouched. In this case, towards the end of inflation all the fluctuations, adiabatic and non-adiabatic, are dominated by a single degree of freedom.
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