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The trispectrum in ghost inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-11-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We calculate the trispectrum in ghost inflation where both the contact diagram and scale-exchange diagram are taken into account. The shape of trispectrum is discussed carefully and we find that the local form is absent in ghost inflation. In general, for the non-local shape trispectrum there are not analogous parameters to τNLloc.\tau_{NL}^{loc.} and gNLloc.g_{NL}^{loc.} which can completely characterize the size of local form trispectrum.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1004.0808,
  title  = {The trispectrum in ghost inflation},
  author = {Qing-Guo Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.0808},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

19 pages, 8 figures; clarifications and corrections added, version accepted for publication in JCAP

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