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Primordial non-Gaussianity from G-inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-06-07 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a comprehensive study of primordial fluctuations generated from G-inflation, in which the inflaton Lagrangian is of the form K(ϕ,X)G(ϕ,X)ϕK(\phi, X)-G(\phi, X)\Box\phi with X=(ϕ)2/2X=-(\partial\phi)^2/2. The Lagrangian still gives rise to second-order gravitational and scalar field equations, and thus offers a more generic class of single-field inflation than ever studied, with a richer phenomenology. We compute the power spectrum and the bispectrum, and clarify how the non-Gaussian amplitude depends upon parameters such as the sound speed. In so doing we try to keep as great generality as possible, allowing for non slow-roll and deviation from the exact scale-invariance.

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@article{arxiv.1103.1740,
  title  = {Primordial non-Gaussianity from G-inflation},
  author = {Tsutomu Kobayashi and Masahide Yamaguchi and Jun'ichi Yokoyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.1740},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

12 pages; v2: Minor changes, added 4 figures, matches the published version