Non-Gaussianities in two-field inflation
Abstract
We study the bispectrum of the curvature perturbation on uniform energy density hypersurfaces in models of inflation with two scalar fields evolving simultaneously. In the case of a separable potential, it is possible to compute the curvature perturbation up to second order in the perturbations, generated on large scales due to the presence of non-adiabatic perturbations, by employing the -formalism, in the slow-roll approximation. In this case, we provide an analytic formula for the nonlinear parameter . We apply this formula to double inflation with two massive fields, showing that it does not generate significant non-Gaussianity; the nonlinear parameter at the end of inflation is slow-roll suppressed. Finally, we develop a numerical method for generic two-field models of inflation, which allows us to go beyond the slow-roll approximation and confirms our analytic results for double inflation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0603799,
title = {Non-Gaussianities in two-field inflation},
author = {Filippo Vernizzi and David Wands},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0603799},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
29 pages, 6 figures. v2, comparison with previous estimates. v3, JCAP version; Revisions based on Referee's comment, corrected typos, added few eqs and refs, conclusions unchanged