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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > DAMTP Friday GR Seminar > Constraining Lorentz Violation During Inflation
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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Helvi Witek. I discuss the consequences of Lorentz violation on cosmology and in particular during slow-roll inflation. The model is a canonical scalar inflaton coupled to a fixed-norm timelike vector field, or “aether.” The vector is described by Einstein-aether theory, a vector-tensor theory of gravitational Lorentz violation. If the scale of Lorentz violation is sufficiently small compared to the Planck mass, and the strength of the scalar-aether coupling is suitably large, then the spin-0 and spin-1 perturbations grow exponentially and spoil the inflationary background. The effects of such a coupling on the CMB are too small to be visible to current or near-future CMB experiments; unusually, no isocurvature modes are produced at first order in a perturbative expansion around the aether norm. These results are discussed for both a general potential and a worked example, m2 \phi2 inflation with a quadratic scalar-aether coupling term. This talk is part of the DAMTP Friday GR Seminar series. This talk is included in these lists:
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