A new algorithm for calculating the curvature perturbations in stochastic inflation

作者:Fujita Tomohiro*; Kawasaki Masahiro; Tada Yuichiro; Takesako Tomohiro
来源:Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2013, (12): 036.
DOI:10.1088/1475-7516/2013/12/036

摘要

We propose a new approach for calculating the curvature perturbations produced during inflation in the stochastic formalism. In our formalism, the fluctuations of the e-foldings are directly calculated without perturbatively expanding the inflaton field and they are connected to the curvature perturbations by the delta N formalism. The result automatically includes the contributions of the higher order perturbations because we solve the equation of motion non-perturbatively. In this paper, we analytically prove that our result (the power spectrum and the nonlinearity parameter) is consistent with the standard result in single field slow-roll inflation. We also describe the algorithm for numerical calculations of the curvature perturbations in more general inflation models.