"""Exact massless de Sitter scalar power; Python 3.14, root NumPy/Matplotlib. Writes the matching opaque PNG to the caller's working directory. """ import numpy as np import matplotlib matplotlib.use('Agg') import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(7.5, 4.4), facecolor='white') fig.subplots_adjust(left=.1, right=.985, bottom=.18, top=.9) x = np.linspace(-1.2, 8, 601) for ratio, color in [(1, '#24547a'), (10, '#b95734'), (100, '#4f8b55')]: power = 1+np.exp(2*(np.log(ratio)-x)) ax.semilogy(x, power, lw=2.2, color=color, label=r'$k/k_0='+str(ratio)+'$') ax.axvline(np.log(ratio), color=color, ls=':', lw=1, alpha=.7) ax.axhline(1, color='#444', ls='--', lw=1.2) ax.text(5.35, 1.7, 'frozen power', fontsize=11) ax.text(-.85, 18000, 'vacuum contribution\nredshifts at fixed k', fontsize=11) ax.set(xlim=(-1.2,8), ylim=(.7,150000), xlabel=r'$\log(aH/k_0)$', ylabel=r'$\Delta_{\delta\phi}^2/(H/2\pi)^2$', title='Each comoving scalar mode approaches the same frozen power') ax.legend(loc='upper right', fontsize=11) ax.spines[['top','right']].set_visible(False) fig.text(.5, .025, 'Dotted lines: k = aH. Constant H; the formula includes both vacuum and frozen terms.', ha='center', fontsize=9) fig.savefig('paper-62-scalar-freezing.png', dpi=120, facecolor='white') plt.close(fig)