Gravitational waves from double-inflection-point inflation

Wu-Tao Xu, Jing Liu, T. Gao, Zong‐Kuan Guo

Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2020 · 92 citations · 53 references

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We study the production of gravitational waves from primordial scalar perturbations in double-inflection-point inflation, in which one of the inflection points leads to a primordial power spectrum consistent with CMB observations at large scales and the other generates a large peak in the power spectrum of scalar perturbations at small scales. We calculate the energy spectrum of the reduced gravitational waves and find that the gravitational-wave signal can be detected by future space-based laser interferometers.

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