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We study the evolution of gravitational waves through the preheating era that follows inflation. The oscillating inflaton drives parametric resonant growth of scalar field fluctuations, and although super-Hubble tensor modes are not strongly amplified, they do carry an imprint of preheating. This is clearly seen in the Weyl tensor, which provides a covariant description of gravitational waves.
8 pages, 8 figures, Revtex
Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), preheating era, Astrophysics, Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories, inflaton, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Gravitational waves, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), gravitational waves, super-Hubble tensor, Weyl tensor, Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences
Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), preheating era, Astrophysics, Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories, inflaton, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Gravitational waves, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), gravitational waves, super-Hubble tensor, Weyl tensor, Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences
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