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General Single Field Inflation with Large Positive Non-Gaussianity

Astrophysics 2009-06-23 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Recent analysis of the WMAP three year data suggests fNLlocal86.8f_{NL}^{local}\simeq86.8 in the WMAP convention. It is necessary to make sure whether general single field inflation can produce a large positive fNLf_{NL} before turning to other scenarios. We give some examples to generate a large positive fNLequilf_{NL}^{equil} in general single field inflation. Our models are different from ghost inflation. Due to the appearance of non-conventional kinetic terms, fNLequil1f_{NL}^{equil}\gg1 can be realized in single field inflation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0801.0040,
  title  = {General Single Field Inflation with Large Positive Non-Gaussianity},
  author = {Miao Li and Tower Wang and Yi Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0040},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

27 pages, 3 figure; final version published in JCAP

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