Long-Wavelength Modes of Cosmological Scalar Fields

Abstract

We give a numerical analysis of long-wavelength modes in the WKB approximation of cosmological scalar fields coupled to gravity via φ2R. Massless fields are coupled conformally at =1/6. Conformality can be preserved for fields of nonzero mass by shifting . We discuss implications for density perturbations.

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