Abstract
We study the semiclassical particle creation in the preheating phase after inflation. We work in the long-wavelength limit, in which all fields are considered homogeneous. The particle creation is shown to be intrinsically connected to the existence of chaos in the system.
- Received 18 June 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.67.043501
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