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A Consistency Relation for Power Law Inflation in DBI models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Brane inflation in string theory leads to a new realization of power law inflation which can give rise to significant non-gaussianity. This can happen for any throat geometry if the scalar potential is appropriate. This note presents a consistency relation connecting the running of the nonlinearity parameter characterizing the non-gaussianity and the scalar and tensor indices. The relationship is valid assuming that the throat geometry and scalar potential support power law inflation, regardless of the level of non-gaussianity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0703248,
  title  = {A Consistency Relation for Power Law Inflation in DBI models},
  author = {Michal Spalinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0703248},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Added references, a couple of comments, fixed 3 typos

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