Issues Concerning Loop Corrections to the Primordial Power Spectra

S. P. Miao, R.P. Woodard

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Abstract

We expound ten principles in an attempt to clarify the debate over infrared loop corrections to the primordial scalar and tensor power spectra from inflation. Among other things we note that existing proposals for nonlinear extensions of the scalar fluctuation field ζ introduce new ultraviolet divergences which no one understands how to renormalize. Loop corrections and higher correlators of these putative observables would also be enhanced by inverse powers of the slow roll parameter . We propose an extension which should be better behaved.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages36
JournalJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume1207
Issue number008
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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