Evolution of Large Scale Curvature Fluctuations During the Perturbative Decay of the Inflaton
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We study the evolution of cosmological fluctuations during and after inflation driven by a scalar field coupled to a perfect fluid through afriction term. During the slow-roll regime for the scalar field, the perfect fluid is also frozen and isocurvature perturbations are generated. After the end of inflation, during the decay of the inflaton, we find that a change in the observationally relevant large scale curvature fluctuations is possible.
9 pages, 2 figures; v2: version published in PRD
9 pages, 2 figures; v2: version published in PRD