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Cosmic inflation provides a mechanism for generating the early density perturbations that seeded the large-scale structures we see today. Primordial non-Gaussianity is among the most promising of few observational tests of physics at this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-10 Marilena LoVerde , Simone Ferraro , Kendrick M. Smith

In this work, we investigated several inflationary scenarios within the framework of modified $f(Q,\phi)$ gravity with a nonminimal coupling between the scalar field and the nonmetricity scalar. We focused on the impact of the coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 F. Mavoa , M. B. Barry , R. Ndioukane , M. G. Ganiou , F. K. Ahloui

We calculate the trispectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation generated by an epoch of slow-roll inflation in the early universe, and demonstrate that the non-gaussian signature imprinted at horizon crossing is unobservably small,…

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

We show that the quantum dynamics of a real scalar field for a large class of potentials in the symmetric Gaussian state, where the nonperturbative quantum contributions are taken into account, can be described equivalently by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Dongsu Bak , Sang Pyo Kim , Sung Ku Kim , Kwang-Sup Soh , Jae Hyung Yee

In this paper we fully calculate the non-Gaussianity of primordial curvature perturbation of island universe by using the second order perturbation equation. We find that for the spectral index $n_s\simeq 0.96$, which is favored by current…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Yun-Song Piao

It is commonly assumed that the Lagrangian of multi-field theories of gravity contains the sum of kinetic terms of scalar fields. However, we propose here the Lagrangian contains not the sum but the quotient of kinetic terms. With this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-17 Changjun Gao

The thermal non-Gaussianity in Near-Milne universe is investigated in this letter. Through classifying thermal fluctuations into two types, one characterized by a phase transition and the other without phase transition, we show that for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-31 Jian-Pin Wu , Yi Ling

We analyse the situation where the primordial curvature perturbations are produced by the joint effects of an inflaton field and two curvaton fields. We present general equations which allow the reader to obtain f_NL for several different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-14 Maria Sueiro , Malcolm Fairbairn

Cosmological Collider Physics gives us the opportunity to probe high-energy physics from observing the spacetime fluctuations generated during inflation imprinted on the cosmic microwave background. In other words, it is a method to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-29 Nobuhito Maru , Akira Okawa

We give a concise formula for the non-Gaussianity of the primordial curvature perturbation generated on super-horizon scales in multi-scalar inflation model without assuming slow-roll conditions. This is an extension of our previous work.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-11 Shuichiro Yokoyama , Teruaki Suyama , Takahiro Tanaka

We investigate the behaviour of tensor fluctuations in Loop Quantum Cosmology, focusing on a class of scaling solutions which admit a near scale-invariant scalar field power spectrum. We obtain the spectral index of the gravitational field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-21 E. J. Copeland , D. J. Mulryne , N. J. Nunes , M. Shaeri

One-loop correction to the power spectrum in generic single-field inflation is calculated by using standard perturbation theory. Because of the enhancement inversely proportional to the observed red tilt of the spectral index of curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-11 Jason Kristiano , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

For a robust interpretation of upcoming observations from PLANCK and LHC experiments it is imperative to understand how the inflationary dynamics of a non-minimally coupled Higgs scalar field with gravity may affect the determination of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 L. A. Popa , A. Caramete

Primordial perturbations with wavelengths greater than the observable universe shift the effective background fields in our observable patch from their global averages over the inflating space. This leads to a landscape picture where the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sami Nurmi , Christian T. Byrnes , Gianmassimo Tasinato

This paper presents and investigates non-Gaussian perturbations for the warm k-inflation model that is driven by pure kinetic energy. The two complementary components of the overall non-Gaussianity are the three-point and four-point…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-21 Xiao-Min Zhang , Run-Qing Zhao , Yun-Cai Feng , Peng-Cheng Chu , Zhi-Peng Peng , Xi-Bin Li

We study a simple extension of quasi-single field inflation in which the inflaton interacts with multiple extra massive scalars known as isocurvatons. Due to the breaking of time translational invariance by the inflaton background, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Michael McAneny , Alexander K. Ridgway

Non-Gaussian statistics in the distribution of large scale structure, and in temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background, can be used to constrain inflationary models. Data on the cosmic microwave background from Planck…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-06 Nick Woods

Starting from an initial state of thermal equilibrium, we derive an expression for the quantum fluctuation in the energy density during the inflationary epoch in terms of the mode functions for the inflaton field. The effect of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Amit Kundu , S. Mallik , D. Rai Chaudhuri

Models of cosmic inflation generically predict a weak but potentially detectable amount of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), which can be used to obtain insights into the degrees of freedom during inflation and their interactions. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Anton Chudaykin , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox

We consider constraints on the structure formation model based on non-Gaussian fluctuations generated during inflation, which have $\chi_m^2$ distributions. Using three data sets, the abundance of the clusters at $z=0$, moderate $z$ and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kazuya Koyama , Jiro Soda , Atsushi Taruya