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Super-horizon perturbations and preheating

Karim A. Malik, D. Wands, D. H. Lyth, A. R. Liddle

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0010639

Abstract

We discuss the evolution of linear perturbations about a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background metric, using only the local conservation of energy-momentum. We show that on sufficiently large scales the curvature perturbation on spatial hypersurfaces of uniform-density is constant when the non-adiabatic pressure perturbation is negligible. We clarify the conditions under which super-horizon curvature perturbations may vary, using preheating as an example.

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