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Features from the non-attractor beginning of inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2016-10-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the effects of the non-attractor initial conditions for the canonical single-field inflation. The non-attractor stage can last only several ee-folding numbers, and should be followed by hilltop inflation. This two-stage evolution leads to large scale suppression in the primordial power spectrum, which is favored by recent observations. Moreover we give a detailed calculation of primordial non-Guassianity due to the "from non-attractor to slow-roll" transition, and find step features in the local and equilateral shapes. We conclude that a plateau-like inflaton potential with an initial non-attractor phase yields interesting features in both power spectrum and bispectrum.

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@article{arxiv.1607.07872,
  title  = {Features from the non-attractor beginning of inflation},
  author = {Yi-Fu Cai and Jinn-Ouk Gong and Dong-Gang Wang and Ziwei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07872},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

17 pages, 9 figures, references added, several figures replotted