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Consistency relation for the Lorentz invariant single-field inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-05-18 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this paper we compute the sizes of equilateral and orthogonal shape bispectrum for the general Lorentz invariant single-field inflation. The stability of field theory implies a non-negative square of sound speed which leads to a consistency relation between the sizes of orthogonal and equilateral shape bispectrum, namely fNLorth.0.054fNLequil.f_{NL}^{orth.}\lesssim -0.054 f_{NL}^{equil.}. In particular, for the single-field Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) inflation, the consistency relation becomes fNLorth.0.070fNLequil.0f_{NL}^{orth.}\simeq 0.070 f_{NL}^{equil.}\lesssim 0. These consistency relations are also valid in the mixed scenario where the quantum fluctuations of some other light scalar fields contribute to a part of total curvature perturbation on the super-horizon scale and may generate a local form bispectrum. A distinguishing prediction of the mixed scenario is τNLloc.>(65fNLloc.)2\tau_{NL}^{loc.}>({6\over 5}f_{NL}^{loc.})^2. Comparing these consistency relations to WMAP 7yr data, there is still a big room for the Lorentz invariant inflation, but DBI inflation has been disfavored at more than 68% CL.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1001.5110,
  title  = {Consistency relation for the Lorentz invariant single-field inflation},
  author = {Qing-Guo Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.5110},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures; v2: title changed, some mistakes corrected; v3: refs added, version accepted for publication in JCAP

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