| Speaker: | Richard Bond (CITA, University of Toronto) |
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| Title: | The Kinematics of Inflation, Preheating and Heating: a Playground for Kolmogorov-Sinai and Shannon Entropies |
| Date (JST): | Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 15:30 - 17:30 |
| Place: | Seminar Room B |
| Related File: | 2209.pdf |
| Abstract: | We have a good story, even with evidence, that all structure in the universe evolved from the diffusion of quantum-fluctuations that broke the adiabaticity of coarse-grained kinematic field trajectories during inflation. I will describe the use of dynamical systems theory to understand the subsequent complex linear preheating epoch, using Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy to measure the various instabilities that can arise, followed by the highly nonlinear classical-fluctuation generation during heating, as measured by coarse-grained Shannon entropy (the entropy we observe here and now). I will extend the kinematical entropic picture to short-lived instabilities while inflation is ongoing and their impact. A possible observable manifestation is non-standard non-Gaussianities of a form that are not strongly constrained so far with CMB, and that may be better constrained by Large Scale Structure Surveys. |
