Speaker: Jonathan White (Kyoto University) Speaker: Jonathan White (Kyoto University) Title: Curvature perturbation in multi-field inflation with non-minimal coupling Title: Curvature perturbation in multi-field inflation with non-minimal coupling Abstract: We consider the curvature perturbation resulting from multi-field inflation models in which potentially all fields are non-minimally coupled to the Ricci Scalar. We confirm that, unlike in the single field case, the curvature perturbations associated with the Jordan and Einstein frames are not the same, and that the difference is a direct consequence of the isocurvature perturbations inherent to multi-field models. Using the dN formalism, and focusing on analytically soluble examples, we see how the statistical properties of the two curvature perturbations are also not necessarily the same, but confirm that equivalence is recovered in the adiabatic limit. Abstract: We consider the curvature perturbation resulting from multi-field inflation models in which potentially all fields are non-minimally coupled to the Ricci Scalar. We confirm that, unlike in the single field case, the curvature perturbations associated with the Jordan and Einstein frames are not the same, and that the difference is a direct consequence of the isocurvature perturbations inherent to multi-field models. Using the dN formalism, and focusing on analytically soluble examples, we see how the statistical properties of the two curvature perturbations are also not necessarily the same, but confirm that equivalence is recovered in the adiabatic limit. |