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Inflationary gravitational wave background as a tail effect
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The free propagator of a massless mode in an expanding universe can be written as a sum of two terms, a lightcone and a tail part. The latter describes a subluminal (time-like) signal. We show that the inflationary gravitational wave background, influencing cosmic microwave background polarization, and routinely used for constraining inflationary models through the so-called $r$ ratio, originates exclusively from the tail part.
Comment: 8 pages
Comment: 8 pages