Non-canonical inflation and primordial black holes production

We study a mechanism for the amplification of the inflationary scalar perturbation when the inflaton field action is non-canonical, i.e. the inflaton kinetic term has a non-standard form. For such a case the speed of sound of the perturbations generated during inflation is less than one and in gener...

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Main Authors: Alexander Y. Kamenshchik, Alessandro Tronconi, Tereza Vardanyan, Giovanni Venturi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-04-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319301327