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Unique contributions to the scalar bispectrum in `just enough inflation'

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-04-14 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A scalar field rolling down a potential with a large initial velocity results in inflation of a finite duration. Such a scenario suppresses the scalar power on large scales improving the fit to the cosmological data. We find that the scenario leads to a hitherto unexplored situation wherein the boundary terms dominate the contributions to the scalar bispectrum over the bulk terms. We show that the consistency relation governing the non-Gaussianity parameter fNLf_{_{\rm NL}} is violated on large scales and that the contributions at the initial time can substantially enhance the value of fNLf_{_{\rm NL}}.

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@article{arxiv.1906.03942,
  title  = {Unique contributions to the scalar bispectrum in `just enough inflation'},
  author = {H. V. Ragavendra and Debika Chowdhury and L. Sriramkumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.03942},
  year   = {2021}
}

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v1: 5 pages, 4 figures