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Note on Non-Gaussianities in Two-field Inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2010-12-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Two-field slow-roll inflation is the most conservative modification of a single-field model. The main motivations to study it are its entropic mode and non-Gaussianity. Several years ago, for a two-field model with additive separable potentials, Vernizzi and Wands invented an analytic method to estimate its non-Gaussianities. Later on, Choi et al. applied this method to the model with multiplicative separable potentials. In this note, we design a larger class of models whose non-Gaussianity can be estimated by the same method. Under some simplistic assumptions, roughly these models are unlikely able to generate a large non-Gaussianity. We look over some specific models of this class by scanning the full parameter space, but still no large non-Gaussianity appears in the slow-roll region. These models and scanning techniques would be useful for future model hunt if observational evidence shows up for two-field inflation.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1008.3198,
  title  = {Note on Non-Gaussianities in Two-field Inflation},
  author = {Tower Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.3198},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

22 pages, 3 figures, major revision of the numeric results

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