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Constraining Galileon Inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-23 v2

Abstract

In this short paper, we present constraints on the Galileon inflationary model from the CMB bispectrum. We employ a principal-component analysis of the independent degrees of freedom constrained by data and apply this to the WMAP 9-year data to constrain the free parameters of the model. A simple Bayesian comparison establishes that support for the Galileon model from bispectrum data is at best weak.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1411.4501,
  title  = {Constraining Galileon Inflation},
  author = {Donough Regan and Gemma J. Anderson and Matthew Hull and David Seery},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4501},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages. Matches published version

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