Preprint typeset in JHEP style- HYPER VERSION McGill-03/13 Decoupling, Trans-Planckia and Inflation ∗
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: We survey recent calculations probing what constraints decoupling can put on the influence of very-high-energy physics on the predictions of inflation for the cosmic microwave background. Using garden-variety hybrid inflation models we identify two ways in which higher-energy physics can intrude into inflationary predictions. 1. Non-adiabatic physics up to 30 e-foldings before horizon exit can have observable consequences for the CMB, including the introduction of features in the fluctuation spectrum at specific multipoles and a general suppression of power at large scales (a prediction which was made before the recent release of WMAP results). Our comparison of simple models with the data marginally improves the goodness of fit compared to the standard concordance cosmology, but only at the 1.5-sigma level. 2. Adiabatic physics can also affect inflationary predictions through virtual loops of very-heavy particles, but these can only be distinguished from lower-energy effects within the context of specific models. We believe our conclusions should apply equally well to trans-Planckian physics provided only that this physics satisfies decoupling, such as string theory appears to do. (Non-decoupling trans-Planckian proposals must explain why meaningful theoretical predictions at low energies are possible
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.133 | 0.018 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".