Abstract

Recent analyses of the WMAP 5-year data constrain possible nonadiabatic contributions to the initial conditions of cosmic microwave background anisotropies. Depending upon the early dynamics of the plasma, the amplitude of the entropic modes can experience a different suppression by the time of photon decoupling. Explicit examples of the latter observation are presented both analytically and numerically when the post-inflationary dynamics is dominated by a stiff contribution.

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