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Seminar

Extended δN formalism

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Aula 507 (Pere Pascual)

The δN formalism is a powerful approach to compute non-linearly the large-scale evolution of the comoving curvature perturbation ζ. It assumes a set of FLRW patches that evolve independently, but in doing so, all the gradient terms are discarded, which are not negligibly small in models beyond slow-roll. In this paper, we extend the formalism to capture these gradient corrections by encoding them in a homogeneous-spatial-curvature contribution assigned to each FLRW patch. For a concrete example, we apply this formalism to the ultra-slow-roll inflation, and find that it can correctly describe the large-scale evolution of the comoving curvature perturbation from the horizon exit.