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Yi-Fu Cai1,2,3, Jie Jiang1,2,3, Misao Sasaki4,5,6
1Department of Astronomy, School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
Abstract:
We propose a novel mechanism for enhancing primordial gravitational waves without significantly affecting the curvature perturbations produced during inflation. This is achieved due to nonlinear sourcing of resonantly amplified scalar field fluctuations. Our result is an explicit scale-dependent counterexample of the famous Lyth bound, which opens up a promising perspective of producing detectable inflationary tensor modes with low-scale inflation and a sub-Planckian field excursion. We explicitly demonstrate the testability of our mechanism with upcoming cosmic microwave background B-mode observations.
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