Trispectrum from Ghost Inflation
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-11-20 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Ghost inflation predicts almost scale-invariant primordial cosmological perturbations with relatively large non-Gaussianity. The bispectrum is known to have a large contribution at the wavenumbers forming an equilateral triangle and the corresponding nonlinear parameter is typically of order . In this paper we calculate trispectrum from ghost inflation and show that the corresponding nonlinear parameter is typically of order . We investigate the shape dependence of the trispectrum and see that it has some features different from DBI inflation. Therefore, our result may be useful as a template to distinguish ghost inflation from other models of inflation by future experiments.
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@article{arxiv.1004.1776,
title = {Trispectrum from Ghost Inflation},
author = {Keisuke Izumi and Shinji Mukohyama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.1776},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
25 pages, 10 figures