Bounds on Generic High-Energy Physics Modifications to the Primordial Power Spectrum from Back-Reaction on the Metric
Abstract
Modifications to the primordial power spectrum of inflationary density perturbations have been studied recently using a boundary effective field theory approach. In the approximation of a fluctuating quantum field on a fixed background, the generic effect of new physics is encoded in parameters of order H/M. Here, we point out that the back-reaction on the metric can be neglected only when these parameters obey certain bounds that may put them beyond the reach of observation.
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