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On Non-Gaussianities in Multi-Field Inflation (N fields): Bi- and Tri-spectra beyond Slow-Roll

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-11-04 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We compute analytic expressions for the non-linearity parameters characterizing the bi- and tri-spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations generated during an inflationary epoch of the early universe driven by an arbitrary number of fields. We assume neither slow roll nor a separable potential; instead, to compute Non-Gaussianities, we assume a separable Hubble parameter. We apply the formalism to an exact solvable toy-model and show under which conditions observably large non-Gaussianities are produced.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0908.4269,
  title  = {On Non-Gaussianities in Multi-Field Inflation (N fields): Bi- and Tri-spectra beyond Slow-Roll},
  author = {Diana Battefeld and Thorsten Battefeld},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.4269},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

25 pages, 3 figures. V3: labels in Fig.1-3 corrected over JCAP version (sign of fNL)