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We study the bispectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation on uniform-density hypersurfaces generated by a kind of the noncanonical warm inflation, wherein the inflation is provided by a noncanonical scalar inflaton field that is…

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We compute the amplitude of the non-Gaussianities in inflationary models with multiple, uncoupled scalar fields. This calculation thus applies to all models of assisted inflation, including N-flation, where inflation is driven by multiple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Thorsten Battefeld , Richard Easther

We calculate the three-point correlation function evaluated at horizon crossing for a set of interacting scalar fields coupled to gravity during inflation. This provides the initial condition for the three-point function of the curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David Seery , James E. Lidsey

We study a model where two scalar fields, that are subdominant during inflation, decay into radiation some time after inflation has ended but before primordial nucleosynthesis. Perturbations of these two curvaton fields can be responsible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-05 Jussi Valiviita , Hooshyar Assadullahi , David Wands

We compute non-Gaussianities in N-flation, a string motivated model of assisted inflation with quadratic, separable potentials and masses given by the Marcenko-Pastur distribution. After estimating parameters characterizing the bi- and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Diana Battefeld , Thorsten Battefeld

We consider primordial fluctuations in thermal inflation scenario. Since the thermal inflation drives about 10 $e$-folds after the standard inflation, the time of horizon-exit during inflation corresponding to the present observational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-18 Masahiro Kawasaki , Tomo Takahashi , Shuichiro Yokoyama

In this paper we mainly focus on the curvature perturbation generated at the end of multi-field inflation, such as the multi-brid inflation. Since the curvature perturbation is produced on the super-horizon scale, the bispectrum and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-15 Qing-Guo Huang

We consider the expected level of primordial non-Gaussianities in models in which density perturbations are produced by spatial fluctuations in the decay rate of the inflaton. We consider both the non-Gaussianities resulting from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Matias Zaldarriaga

We present a class of models in which the primordial metric fluctuations do not necessarily obey Gaussian statistics. These models are realizations of mechanisms in which non-Gaussianity is first generated by a light scalar field and then…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Francis Bernardeau , Tristan Brunier , Jean-Philippe Uzan

Focusing on the local type primordial non-Gaussianities, we study the bispectrum and trispectrum during a non-minimal slow-roll inflation. We use the so-called $\delta N$ formalism to investigate the super-horizon evolution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-28 Kosar Asadi , Kourosh Nozari

We characterise the primordial perturbations produced due to both inflaton and curvaton fluctuations in models where the curvaton has a quadratic, cosine or hyperbolic potential, and the inflaton potential is characterised by the usual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 José Fonseca , David Wands

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Marco Celoria , Denis Comelli , Luigi Pilo , Rocco Rollo

Single field inflationary models predict nearly Gaussian initial conditions and hence a detection of non-Gaussianity would be a signature of the more complex inflationary scenarios. In this paper we study the effect on the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Dmitriy Tseliakhovich , Christopher Hirata , Anze Slosar

We analyze primordial non-gaussianities in presence of an ultra-slow phase during the inflationary dynamics, focusing on scenarios relevant for the production of primordial black holes. We compute the three-point correlation function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Marco Taoso , Alfredo Urbano

We study the generation of non-Gaussianity in models of hybrid inflation with two inflaton fields, (2-brid inflation). We analyse the region in the parameter and the initial condition space where a large non-Gaussianity may be generated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Christian T. Byrnes , Ki-Young Choi , Lisa M. H. Hall

In the present paper, certain inflation models are shown to have large non-Gaussianity in special cases. Namely, finite length inflation models with an effective higher derivative interaction, in which slow-roll inflation is adopted as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-26 Shiro Hirai , Tomoyuki Takami

We present an estimate for the non-linear parameter \tau_NL, which measures the non-gaussianity imprinted in the trispectrum of the comoving curvature perturbation, \zeta. Our estimate is valid throughout the inflationary era, until the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 David Seery , James E. Lidsey

We compute the super-Hubble evolution of non-Gaussianity of primordial curvature perturbations in two-field inflation models by employing two formalisms: delta N and covariant formalisms. Although two formalisms treat the evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Yuki Watanabe

We study the non-Gaussian features in single-field slow-roll inflationary scenario where inflation is preceded by a radiation era. In such a scenario both bispectrum and trispectrum non-Gaussianities are enhanced. Interestingly, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 Suratna Das

In hybrid inflationary models, inflation ends by a sudden instability associated with a steep ridge in the potential. Here we argue that this feature can generate a large contribution to the curvature perturbation on observable scales. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-21 David Mulryne , David Seery , Daniel Wesley