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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 fNLequilf_{NL}^{equil} is typically of order O(102)O(10^2). In this paper we calculate trispectrum from ghost inflation and show that the corresponding nonlinear parameter τNL\tau_{NL} is typically of order O(104)O(10^4). 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}
}

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25 pages, 10 figures

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