A note on testing pre-inflationary times with gravitational-waves

2010/05/20 by Carlos Marques Afonso, Afonso, Carlos Marques, Alfredo Barbosa Henriques +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1005.3666

10 pages, 2 figures

arxiv created 2010/05/20 · arxiv updated 2010/05/21

Abstract

A simple inflationary model based on loop quantum cosmology is considered. Within this framework, we show that inflation does not necessarily erase the infor- mation prior to its onset, but that such information may leave its imprint in the energy-spectrum of the gravitational-waves generated at these earliest of times.

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