Kavli Affiliate: Joshua Frieman | First 5 Authors: Ryn Grutkoski, Hayley J. Macpherson, John T. Giblin Jr, Joshua Frieman, | Summary: We use numerical relativity to study the violent preheating era at the end of inflation. This epoch can result in highly nonlinear fluctuations in density and gravitational potential which feed back onto the averaged […]
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