Primordial non-gaussianities from multiple-field inflation
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We calculate the three-point correlation function evaluated at horizon crossing for a set of interacting scalar fields coupled to gravity during inflation. This provides the initial condition for the three-point function of the curvature perturbation in the Sasaki--Stewart \delta N formulation. We find that the effect is small, of the order of a slow-roll parameter, and that the non-gaussianity can be determined on large scales once the unperturbed background evolution is known. As an example of the use of our formalism, we calculate the primordial non-gaussianity arising in a model of assisted inflation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0506056,
title = {Primordial non-gaussianities from multiple-field inflation},
author = {David Seery and James E. Lidsey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0506056},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
24 pages, JCAP LaTeX style; replaced with version accepted by JCAP. Some corrections to Sections 2 and 5, conclusions unchanged