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COT4 - Nonsingular Cosmology - Inflation

Speaker_

Pavon, Diego

Co-autors

Jose P. Mimoso and Ana Nunes

 Talk_

Bulk Viscosity Impact on the Scenario of Warm Inflation

Abstract_

The decay of the inflaton in radiation and particles during the slow roll suggests that these may interact with each other and that the latter may also decay into subproducts before inflation is completed. As a consequence, the fluid is no longer perfect and a non-negligible bulk viscosity necessarily sets in. We write the corresponding equations as an autonomous system and study the asymptotic behavior, the conditions for the existence of scaling solutions, and show that the late time effect of fluid dissipation alleviates the depletion of matter and increases the duration of inflation. 

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