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This talk briefly explains how the breaking of a Lorentz-invariant description of nature at tiny space-time intervals might affect the non-Gaussian character of the primordial fluctuations left by inflation. For example, a model that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Hael Collins

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

A $\delta N$ formalism is used to study the non-Gaussianity of the primordial curvature perturbation on an uniform density hypersurfaces generated by the warm inflation for the first time. After introducing the framework of the warm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-01 Xiao-Min Zhang , Hong-Yang Ma , Peng-Cheng Chu , Jun-Ting Liu , Jian-Yang Zhu

We study non-Gaussianity, the spectral index of primordial scalar fluctuations and tensor modes in models where fluctuations from the inflaton and the curvaton can both contribute to the present cosmic density fluctuations. Even though…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazuhide Ichikawa , Teruaki Suyama , Tomo Takahashi , Masahide Yamaguchi

We compute in detail how deviations from Einstein gravity at the inflation energy scale could appear as non-Gaussian features in the sky. To illustrate this we use multi-field $\alpha-$attractor models in the framework of supergravity to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Nicola Bartolo , Domenico Matteo Bianco , Raul Jimenez , Sabino Matarrese , Licia Verde

We study the level of primordial non-Gaussianity in slow-roll two-field inflation. Using an analytic formula for the nonlinear parameter f_nl in the case of a sum or product separable potential, we find that it is possible to generate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 Christian T. Byrnes , Ki-Young Choi , Lisa M. H. Hall

The effect of self-interactions of heavy scalar fields during inflation on the primordial non-Gaussianity is studied. We take a specific constant-turn quasi-single field inflation as an example. We derive an effective theory with emphasis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Shi Pi , Misao Sasaki

We consider a two-field model for inflation where the second order metric perturbations can be amplified by a parametric resonance during preheating. We demonstrate that there can arise a considerable enhancement of non-Gaussianity sourced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kari Enqvist , Asko Jokinen , Anupam Mazumdar , Tuomas Multamaki , Antti Vaihkonen

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

The presence of multiple fields during inflation might seed a detectable amount of non-Gaussianity in the curvature perturbations, which in turn becomes observable in present data sets like the cosmic microwave background (CMB) or the large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 Sebastian Dorn , Erandy Ramirez , Kerstin E. Kunze , Stefan Hofmann , Torsten A. Enßlin

We perform a general study of primordial scalar non-Gaussianities in single field inflationary models in Einstein gravity. We consider models where the inflaton Lagrangian is an arbitrary function of the scalar field and its first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Xingang Chen , Min-xin Huang , Shamit Kachru , Gary Shiu

The gravitationally enhanced friction can reduce the speed of the inflaton to realize an ultra-slow-roll inflation, which will amplify the curvature perturbations. The amplified perturbations can generate a sizable amount of primordial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-27 Li-Yang Chen , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

We investigate the relative sensitivities of several tests for deviations from Gaussianity in the primordial distribution of density perturbations. We consider models for non-Gaussianity that mimic that which comes from inflation as well as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez , Marc Kamionkowski , Sabino Matarrese

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 study primordial fluctuations generated during inflation in a class of models motivated by the DBI Galileons, which are extensions of the DBI action that yield second order field equations. This class of models generalises the DBI…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 Shuntaro Mizuno , Kazuya Koyama

Primordial non-Gaussianity encodes valuable information about the physics of inflation, including the spectrum of particles and interactions. Significant improvements in our understanding of non-Gaussanity beyond Planck require information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Jérôme Gleyzes , Roland de Putter , Daniel Green , Olivier Doré

We calculate the scale dependence of the bispectrum and trispectrum in (quasi) local models of non-Gaussian primordial density perturbations, and characterize this scale dependence in terms of new observable parameters. They can help to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-12 Christian T. Byrnes , Mischa Gerstenlauer , Sami Nurmi , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-09 Xiao-Min Zhang , Jian-Yang Zhu

While usually cosmological initial conditions are assumed to be Gaussian, inflationary theories can predict a certain amount of primordial non-Gaussianity which can have an impact on the statistical properties of the lensing observables. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 F. Pace , L. Moscardini , M. Bartelmann , E. Branchini , K. Dolag , M. Grossi , S. Matarrese

We consider a member of the family of scalar-tensor theories of Inflation - the so-called Horndeski model for Inflation, for which we calculate the non-Gaussianity (NG) and the power spectrum of curvature perturbations. We concentrate on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-29 Avneet Singh