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We present a non-perturbative method for calculating the abundance of primordial black holes given an arbitrary one-point probability distribution function for the primordial curvature perturbation, $P(\zeta)$. A non-perturbative method is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-01 Andrew D. Gow , Hooshyar Assadullahi , Joseph H. P. Jackson , Kazuya Koyama , Vincent Vennin , David Wands

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

This article investigates the generation of non-Gaussianity during inflation. In the context of multi-field inflation, we detail a mechanism that can create significant primordial non-Gaussianities in the adiabatic mode while preserving the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Francis Bernardeau , Jean-Philippe Uzan

We investigate future constraints on primordial local-type non-Gaussianity from 21 cm angular power spectrum from minihalos. We particularly focus on the trispectrum of primordial curvature perturbations which are characterized by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Tomo Takahashi , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Shuichiro Yokoyama

The $\Delta N$ formalism, based on the counting of the number of e-folds during inflation in different local patches of the Universe, has been introduced several years ago as a simple and physically intuitive approach to calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 Sabino Matarrese , Luigi Pilo , Rocco Rollo

In this paper we consider how non-Gaussianity of the primordial density perturbation and the amplitude of gravitational waves from inflation can be used to determine parameters of the curvaton scenario for the origin of structure. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-22 José Fonseca , David Wands

We study the non-Gaussian tail of the curvature fluctuation, $\zeta$, in an inflationary scenario with a transient ultra slow-roll phase that generates a localized large enhancement of the spectrum of $\zeta$. To do so, we implement a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Guillermo Ballesteros , Jesús Gambín Egea , Thomas Konstandin , Alejandro Pérez Rodríguez , Mathias Pierre , Julián Rey

In this work, we present a method for implementing the $\delta N$ formalism to study the primordial non-Gaussianity produced in multiple three-form field inflation. Using a dual description relating three-form fields to noncanonical scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 K. Sravan Kumar , David J. Mulryne , Nelson J. Nunes , João Marto , Paulo Vargas Moniz

We show, both analytically and numerically, that non-Gaussian tails in the probability density function of curvature perturbations arise in ultra-slow-roll inflation from the $\delta N$ formalism, without invoking stochastic inflation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Guillermo Ballesteros , Thomas Konstandin , Alejandro Pérez Rodríguez , Mathias Pierre , Julián Rey

We generalize a recently proposed mechanism for the origin of primordial metric perturbations in inflationary models. Quantum fluctuations of light scalar fields during inflation give rise to super-horizon fluctuations of masses and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Gia Dvali , Andrei Gruzinov , Matias Zaldarriaga

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

Enormous information about interactions is contained in the non-Gaussianities of the primordial curvature perturbations, which are essential to break the degeneracy of inflationary models. We study the primordial bispectra for G-inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Fengge Zhang , Yungui Gong , Jiong Lin , Yizhou Lu , Zhu Yi

We present a novel method for calculating the primordial non-Gaussianity produced by super-horizon evolution during inflation. Our method evolves the distribution of coarse-grained inflationary field values using a transport equation. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 David J. Mulryne , David Seery , Daniel Wesley

Extending the analysis of [1011.4934] beyond the bispectrum, we explore the superhorizon generation of local non-gaussianities and their subsequent approach to adiabaticity. Working with a class of two field models of inflation with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-06 Joel Meyers , Navin Sivanandam

Primordial, non-Gaussian perturbations can generate scale-dependent bias in the galaxy distribution. This in turn will modify correlations between galaxy positions and peculiar velocities at late times, since peculiar velocities reflect the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yin-Zhe Ma , James E. Taylor , Douglas Scott

Local-type primordial non-Gaussianity couples statistics of the curvature perturbation \zeta on vastly different physical scales. Because of this coupling, statistics (i.e. the polyspectra) of \zeta in our Hubble volume may not be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Marilena LoVerde , Elliot Nelson , Sarah Shandera

I adopt a formalism previously developed by Catelan and Theuns (CT) in order to estimate the impact of primordial non-Gaussianity on the quasi-linear spin growth of cold dark matter protostructures. A variety of bispectrum shapes are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 C. Fedeli

For primordial perturbations, deviations from Gaussian statistics on the tail of the probability distribution can be associated with non-perturbative effects of inflation. In this paper, we present some particular examples in which the tail…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-02 Yi-Fu Cai , Xiao-Han Ma , Misao Sasaki , Dong-Gang Wang , Zihan Zhou

We simulate the distribution of very rare, large excursions in the primordial density field produced in models of inflation in the very early universe which include a strong enhancement of the power spectrum. The stochastic $\delta…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Joseph H. P. Jackson , Hooshyar Assadullahi , Andrew D. Gow , Kazuya Koyama , Vincent Vennin , David Wands

It has long been known how to analytically relate the clustering properties of the collapsed structures (halos) to those of the underlying dark matter distribution for Gaussian initial conditions. Here we apply the same approach to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Sabino Matarrese , Licia Verde