Inflationary potential normalization and matter power
ID: inflationary-potential-normalization-and-matter-power
At a fixed horizon-exit e-fold count and with the later cosmology fixed, rescaling a canonical single-field inflationary potential by a positive constant leaves its potential slow-roll parameters and field solution unchanged. The slow-roll curvature power spectrum is proportional to , so the matter power spectrum scales by the same factor while its leading tilt and transfer-function shape remain unchanged. A changed specified reheating history can also shift the horizon-exit count assigned to a fixed physical wavenumber.
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