CLASSICALITY OF PRIMORDIAL FLUCTUATIONS AND PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLES

Abstract

The production of Primordial Black Holes (PBH) from inflationary perturbations provides a physical process where the effective classicality of the fluctuations does not hold for certain scales. For adiabatic perturbations produced during inflation, this range of scales corresponds to PBH with masses M≪1015 g. For PBH with masses M ~ M H (te), the horizon mass at the end of inflation, the generation process during the preheating stage could be classical as well, in contrast to the formation of PBH on these scales by adiabatic inflationary perturbations. For the nonevaporated PBH, the generation process is essentially classical.