How inflationary gravitons affect gravitational radiation

@article{Tan2021HowIG,
  title={How inflationary gravitons affect gravitational radiation},
  author={Liang Tan and N. C. Tsamis and Richard Woodard},
  journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A},
  year={2021},
  volume={380}
}
We include the single graviton loop contribution to the linearized Einstein equation. Explicit results are obtained for one loop corrections to the propagation of gravitational radiation. Although suppressed by a minuscule loop-counting parameter, these corrections are enhanced by the square of the number of inflationary e-foldings. One consequence is that perturbation theory breaks down for a very long epoch of primordial inflation. Another consequence is that the one loop correction to the… 
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