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Chaotic inflation on the brane
R Maartens, D Wands, B Bassett +1
We consider slow-roll inflation in the context of recently proposed four-dimensional effective gravity induced on the world-volume of a three-brane in five-dimensional Einstein gra…
Restoring the sting to metric preheating
Bruce A. Bassett, Christopher Gordon, Roy Maartens +1
The relative growth of field and metric perturbations during preheating is sensitive to initial conditions set in the preceding inflationary phase. Recent work suggests this may pr…
Massless Metric Preheating
Bruce A. Bassett, F. Viniegra
Can super-Hubble metric perturbations be amplified exponentially during preheating ? Yes. An analytical existence proof is provided by exploiting the conformal properties of massle…
Perturbative superluminal censorship and the null energy condition
Matt Visser, Bruce Bassett, Stefano Liberati
We argue that ``effective'' superluminal travel, potentially caused by the tipping over of light cones in Einstein gravity, is always associated with violations of the null energy…
Metric preheating and limitations of linearized gravity
Bruce A. Bassett, Fabrizio Tamburini, David I. Kaiser +1
Recently it has become clear that the resonant amplification of quantum field fluctuations at preheating must be accompanied by resonant amplification of scalar metric perturbation…