English

Non-Gaussianity Unleashed

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2013-03-12 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) approach for exploring inflationary trajectories is employed in the generation of generalised inflationary non-Gaussian signals arising from single field inflation. Scale dependent solutions for fNLf_{NL} are determined via the numerical integration of the three--point function in the curvature perturbation. This allows the full exploration of single field inflationary dynamics in the out-of-slow-roll regime and opens up the possibility of using future observations of non-Gaussianity to constraint the inflationary potential using model-independent methods. The distribution of `equilateral' fNLf_{NL} arising from single field inflation with both canonical and non-canonical kinetic terms are show as an example of the application of this procedure.

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@article{arxiv.1303.2119,
  title  = {Non-Gaussianity Unleashed},
  author = {Jonathan S. Horner and Carlo R. Contaldi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2119},
  year   = {2013}
}
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