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$\alpha$-vacuum and inflationary bispectrum

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-02 v4 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the non-Guassianity originated from the α\alpha-vacuum on the CMB anisotropy. For α\alpha-vacuum, there exist correlation between points in the acausal two patches of de Sitter spactime. Such kind of correlation can lead to large local form non-Guassianity in α\alpha-vacuum. For the single field slow-roll inflationary scenario, the spacetime is in a quasi-de Sitter phase during the inflation. We will show that the α\alpha-vacuum in this case will lead to non-Gaussianity with distinguished feature, of a large local form and a very different shape.

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@article{arxiv.0806.4109,
  title  = {$\alpha$-vacuum and inflationary bispectrum},
  author = {Wei Xue and Bin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4109},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

39 pages, 8 figures, references added, minor changes, accepted by Phys.Rev.D

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