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Curvaton with Polynomial Potential

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-02-07 v2 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In general a weakly self-interacting curvaton field is expected and the curvaton potential takes the polynomial form. The curvaton potential can be dominated by the self-interaction term during the period of inflation if the curvaton field stays at a large vacuum expectation value. We use the δN\delta {\cal N} formalism to calculate the primordial curvature perturbation in the various possible scenarios which make the curvaton model much richer.

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@article{arxiv.0808.1793,
  title  = {Curvaton with Polynomial Potential},
  author = {Qing-Guo Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1793},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

18 pages; a mistake in sec.2.2.2 corrected, enhancement of $g_{NL}$ in the mixed scenarion discussed, version for publication in JCAP

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