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Primordial Non-Gaussianity in Supersolid Inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-07-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study primordial non-gaussianity in supersolid inflation. The dynamics of supersolid is formulated in terms of an effective field theory based on four scalar fields with a shift symmetric action minimally coupled with gravity. In the scalar sector, there are two phonon-like excitations with a kinetic mixing stemming from the completely spontaneous breaking of diffeomorphism. In a squeezed configuration, fNLf_{\text{NL}} of scalar perturbations is angle dependent and not proportional to slow-roll parameters showing a blunt violation of the Maldacena consistency relation. Contrary to solid inflation, the violation persists even after an angular average and generically the amount of non-gaussianity is significant. During inflation, non-gaussianity in the TSS and TTS sector is enhanced in the same region of the parameters space where the secondary production of gravitational waves is sizeable enough to enter in the sensitivity region of LISA, while the scalar fNLf_{\text{NL}} is still within the current experimental limits.

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@article{arxiv.2103.10402,
  title  = {Primordial Non-Gaussianity in Supersolid Inflation},
  author = {Marco Celoria and Denis Comelli and Luigi Pilo and Rocco Rollo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.10402},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

54 pages, 13 figures. Latex file. A number of typos corrected with the JHEP version