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Effects of Radiation on Primordial Non-Gaussianity

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-03-11 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the non-Gaussian features in single-field slow-roll inflationary scenario where inflation is preceded by a radiation era. In such a scenario both bispectrum and trispectrum non-Gaussianities are enhanced. Interestingly, the trispectrum in this scenario does not depend up on the slow-roll parameters and thus τNL\tau_{NL} is larger than fNLf_{NL} which can be a signature of such a pre-inflationary radiation era.

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@article{arxiv.1204.0763,
  title  = {Effects of Radiation on Primordial Non-Gaussianity},
  author = {Suratna Das},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.0763},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Based on the talk presented in the ICGC - 2011, held at Goa during December 14 - 19, 2011 : Contribution to the proceedings for the same