Inflationary preheating and primordial black holes

Aug, 2000
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 63 (2001) 123503
e-Print:
Report number:
  • RCG-00-27,
  • WUAP-00-22

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Abstract:
Preheating after inflation may over-produce primordial black holes (PBH's) in many regions of parameter space. As an example we study two-field models with a massless self-interacting inflaton, taking into account second order field and metric backreaction effects as spatial averages. We find that a complex quilt of parameter regions above the Gaussian PBH over-production threshold emerges due to the enhancement of curvature perturbations on all scales. It should be possible to constrain realistic models of inflation through PBH over-production although many issues, such as rescattering and non-Gaussianity, remain unsolved or unexplored.
  • inflation
  • preheating
  • black hole: production
  • back reaction
  • chaos
  • Einstein equation: linear
  • numerical calculations