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Inflation from a massive scalar field and scalar perturbations of the metric

F. Lara, F. Astorga, M. Bellini

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0103045

Abstract

In the framework of chaotic inflation we study the case of a massive scalar field using a semiclassical approach. We derive the energy density fluctuations in the infrared sector generated by matter field and gauge-invariant metric fluctuations by means of a different method. We find that the super Hubble density fluctuations increase during inflation for a massive scalar field, in agreement with the result obtained in a previous work in which a power-law expanding universe was considered.

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