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The Spectrum of Gravitational Wave Perturbations in the One-Bubble Open Inflationary Universe
We give the initial spectrum of quantized gravitational waves in the context
of the one-bubble open inflationary universe scenario. In determining the
quantum state after the bubble nucleation we adopt the prescription to require
the analyticity of positive frequency functions in half of the Euclidean
extension of the background O(3,1)-symmetric spacetime. We find the spectrum is
well behaved at the infrared limit and there appears no supercurvature mode. In
the thin wall approximation, the explicit form of the spectrum of gravitational
wave perturbations is calculated.Comment: 24 pages ptp-tex file, 2 postscript figures. Progress of Theoretical
Physics accepted. The ptp-tex style file is available at
http://www.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.j
Super-Horizon Scale Dynamics of Multi-Scalar Inflation
We consider the dynamics of a multi-component scalar field on super-horizon
scales in the context of inflationary cosmology. We present a method to solve
the perturbation equations on super- horizon scales, i.e., in the long
wavelength limit, by using only the knowledge of spatially homogeneous
background solutions. In doing so, we clarify the relation between the
perturbation equations in the long wavelength limit and the background
equations. Then as a natural extension of our formalism, we provide a strategy
to study super-horizon scale perturbations beyond the standard linear
perturbation theory. Namely we reformulate our method so as to take into
account the nonlinear dynamics of the scalar field.Comment: 14 pages, typos corrected, to be published in Prog. Theor. Phys. 99
(1998
Large Angle CMB Anisotropy in an Open Universe in the One-Bubble Inflationary Scenario
We consider an alternative scenario of inflation which can account for a
spatially open universe. It is similar to the old inflation in which the bubble
nucleation occurs in the sea of false vacuum, but differs from it in that the
second slow rollover inflation occurs inside a nucleated bubble. Hence our
observable universe is entirely contained in one nucleated bubble. The
significance of the scenario is that apart from a variance due to model
parameters it gives us a definite prediction on the spectrum of the primordial
density perturbations, hence is observationally testable. Here we investigate
the spectrum of CMB anisotropies on large angular scales. We find that the
contribution from peculiar modes which never appear in the usual harmonic
analysis is significant in the case .Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, uuencoded compressed PS fil
Gravitational Radiation Reaction to a Particle Motion
In this paper, we discuss the leading order correction to the equation of
motion of the particle, which presumably describes the effect of gravitational
radiation reaction. We derive the equation of motion in two different ways. The
first one is an extension of the well-known formalism by DeWitt and Brehme
developed for deriving the equation of motion of an electrically charged
particle. In contrast to the electromagnetic case, in which there are two
different charges, i.e., the electric charge and the mass, the gravitational
counterpart has only one charge. This fact prevents us from using the same
renormalization scheme that was used in the electromagnetic case. To make clear
the subtlety in the first approach, we then consider the asymptotic matching of
two different schemes, i.e., the internal scheme in which the small particle is
represented by a spherically symmetric black hole with tidal perturbations and
the external scheme in which the metric is given by small perturbations on the
given background geometry. The equation of motion is obtained from the
consistency condition of the matching. We find that in both ways the same
equation of motion is obtained. The resulting equation of motion is analogous
to that derived in the electromagnetic case. We discuss implications of this
equation of motion.Comment: 25 pages revtex fil
Vacuum State of the Dirac Field in de Sitter Space and Entanglement Entropy
We compute the entanglement entropy of a free massive Dirac field between two
causally disconnected open charts in de Sitter space. We first derive the
Bunch-Davies vacuum mode functions of the Dirac field. We find there exists no
supercurvature mode for the Dirac field. We then give the Bogoliubov
transformation between the Bunch-Davies vacuum and the open chart vacua that
makes the reduced density matrix diagonal. We find that the Dirac field becomes
more entangled than a scalar field as becomes small, and the
difference is maximal in the massless limit.Comment: 22 pages, 2 figure
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