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 with . 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