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Non-Gaussianities of Single Field Inflation with Non-minimal Coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-05-27 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate the non-Gaussianities of inflation driven by a single scalar field coupling non-minimally to the Einstein Gravity. We assume that the form of the scalar field is very general with an arbitrary sound speed. For convenience to study, we take the subclass that the non-minimal coupling term is linear to the Ricci scalar RR. We define a parameter μϵh/ϵθ\mu\equiv\epsilon_h/\epsilon_\theta where ϵh\epsilon_h and ϵθ\epsilon_\theta are two kinds of slow-roll parameters, and obtain the dependence of the shape of the 3-point correlation function on μ\mu. We also show the estimator FNLF_{NL} in the equilateral limit. Finally, based on numerical calculations, we present the non-Gaussianities of non-minimal coupling chaotic inflation as an explicit example.

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@article{arxiv.1012.1697,
  title  = {Non-Gaussianities of Single Field Inflation with Non-minimal Coupling},
  author = {Taotao Qiu and Kwei-Chou Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.1697},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

19 pages, 6 figures, one more section added, analytical results simplified