Lambda-inflation and CMB anisotropy

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Abstract

We explore a broad class of three-parameter inflationary models, called the ΛΛ-inflation, and its observational predictions: high abundance of cosmic gravitational waves consistent with the Harrison-Zel'dovich spectrum of primordial cosmological perturbations, the non-power-law wing-like spectrum of matter density perturbations, high efficiency of these models to meet current observational tests, and others. We show that a parity contribution of the gravitational waves and adiabatic density perturbations into the large-scale temperature anisotropy, T/S ∼1\sim 1, is a common feature of ΛΛ-inflation; the maximum values of T/S (basically not larger than 10) are reached in models where (i) the local spectrum shape of density perturbations is flat or slightly red (nS∼<1n_S{}_\sim^< 1), and (ii) the residual potential energy of the inflaton is near the GUT scale (V01/4∼1016GeVV_0^{1/4} \sim 10^{16} GeV). The conditions to find large T/S in the paradigm of cosmic inflation and the relationship of T/S to the ratio of the power spectra, rr, and to the inflationary γγ and Hubble parameters, are discussed. We argue that a simple estimate, T/S≃3r≃12γ≃(H6×1013GeV)2\simeq 3r\simeq 12γ\simeq (\frac{H}{6\times 10^{13}{\rm GeV}})^2, is true for most known inflationary solutions and allows to relate straightforwardly the important parameters of observational and physical cosmology.

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