An upper bound on the reheat temperature for short duration inflation

Abstract

We calculate the upper bound on the reheating temperature given the non-observation of gravitational waves if the number of efolds during inflation are the minimum number required to address the horizon problem as formulated in terms of entropy. This bound is valid for canonical single field slow roll inflation with a generic potential. Our bound numerically is $T_{\text{reh}}\lesssim 1.7\times 10^{13}$ GeV, which is a factor of 428 less the usual bound one obtains from the non-observation of gravitational waves alone. If inflation lasted much longer than the minimum number of required efolds, our bound relaxes to coincide with the usual bound. We discuss the relevance for studies of primordial black holes.

This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to an error in section 2

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