Speaker
Francisco Pedro
(DESY)
Description
We show that models of `just enough' inflation, where the slow-roll evolution lasted only 50−60 e-foldings, feature modifications of the CMB power spectrum at large angular scales. We perform a systematic and model-independent analysis of any possible non-slow-roll background evolution prior to the final stage of slow-roll inflation, We find a high degree of degeneracy since all possible backgrounds give rise to just two distinct classes of primordial spectra.
Primary author
Francisco Pedro
(DESY)
Co-authors
Alexander Westphal
(DESY)
Bashkar Dutta
(Texas A&M)
Michele Cicoli
(Bologna Univ.)
Sean Downes
(National Taiwan University)
