Comments on Analytic and Numerical Study of Preheating Dynamics.pdfVIP

Comments on “Analytic and Numerical Study of Preheating Dynamics” Lev Kofman Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Dr., Honolulu, HI 96822, USA Andrei Linde Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Alexei A. Starobinsky 6 Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kosygina St. 2, Moscow 117334, Russia 9 9 (February 1, 2008) 1 In a recent paper Boyanovsky et al (hep-ph/9608205) studied preheating for a particular theory of g the inflaton field. Although they results essentially confirm those of the original papers on reheating u after inflation, they claimed that most of the earlier works on preheating did not take into account A backreaction of created particles, misused the Mathieu equation, and were inconclusive about the symmetry restoration after preheating. We explain why we cannot agree with these statements. 5 1 PACS: 98.80.Cq, 04.62.+v, 05.70.Fh SU-ITP-96-39, UHIFA96-45, hep-ph/9608341 1 v 1 4 Recently there was an important progress in the the- effects. We will argue that these approaches do not agree 3 ory of reheating of the universe after inflation. As it with our analytical and numerical results and miss im- 8 was shown in [1–4], in many versions of chaotic infla- portant physics... In fact, whereas the Mathieu equation 0 tion the inflaton field φ very rapidly decays into its own