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We review models which generate a large non-Gaussianity of the local form. We first briefly consider three models which generate the non-Gaussianity either at or after the end of inflation; the curvaton scenario, modulated (p)reheating and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Christian T. Byrnes , Ki-Young Choi

We provide a derivation from first principles of the primordial bispectrum of scalar perturbations produced during inflation driven by a canonically normalized scalar field whose potential exhibits small sinusoidal modulations. A potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Raphael Flauger , Enrico Pajer

We consider a class of multi-component hybrid inflation models whose evolution may be analytically solved under the slow-roll approximation. We call it multi-brid inflation (or $n$-brid inflation where $n$ stands for the number of inflaton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Misao Sasaki

It is possible that the primordial non-Gaussianity is dominated by the higher order terms, such as that set by $g_{NL}$, not $f_{NL}$. In this paper we derive the spectral index and running of $g_{NL}$ from a single isocurvature scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Qing-Guo Huang

We propose a multi-natural inflation model in which the single-field inflaton potential consists of two or more sinusoidal potentials that are comparable in size, but have different periodicity with a possible non-zero relative phase. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-30 Michael Czerny , Fuminobu Takahashi

We study the statistical descriptors for some cosmological inflationary models that allow us to get large levels of non-gaussianity and violations of statistical isotropy. Basically, we study two different class of models: a model that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-05 Cesar A. Valenzuela-Toledo

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 compute analytic expressions for the non-linearity parameters characterizing the bi- and tri-spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations generated during an inflationary epoch of the early universe driven by an arbitrary number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-04 Diana Battefeld , Thorsten Battefeld

We derive the requirements that a generic axion-like field has to satisfy in order to play the role of the inflaton field in the warm inflation scenario. Compared to the parameter space in ordinary natural inflation models, we find that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-12 Luca Visinelli

We study a model of inflation where the scalar perturbations are almost gaussian while there is sizable (equilateral) nongaussianity in the tensor sector. In this model, a rolling pseudoscalar gravitationally coupled to the inflaton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-28 Jessica L. Cook , Lorenzo Sorbo

Using the "$\delta N$-formalism", We obtain the expression of the non-Gaussianity of multiple-field inflationary models with the nontrivial field-space metric. Further, we rewritten the result by using the slow-rolling approximation.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Y. Sun , D. H. Zhang

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

In the present paper, we study the non-Gaussianity of multiple-field inflation model using the method of the field equation. We start from reviewing the background and the perturbation theory of multiple-field inflation, and then derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-04 Shi-Wen Li , Wei Xue

Several recent proposals to embed inflation into high-energy physics rely on inflationary dynamics characterized by a strongly non-geodesic motion in negatively curved field space. This naturally leads to a transient instability of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Jacopo Fumagalli , Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Lucas Pinol , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , John Ronayne

We propose an inflationary model ("natural hybrid model"), which combines the supersymmetric hybrid model and the natural inflation model to achieve the spectral index of 0.96, and the axion decay constant smaller than the Planck scale, f<<…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ki-Young Choi , Bumseok Kyae

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 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

We consider a simple inflation model with a complex scalar field coupled to gravity non-minimally. Both the modulus and the angular directions of the complex scalar are slowly rolling, leading to two-field inflation. The modulus direction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Hyun Min Lee

We consider the non-Gaussianity of the nonlinear density perturbations in a single-field inflationary model when a scalar field couples nonminimally with gravity. Gravity theories with a nonminimal coupling can be transformed into the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Seoktae Koh

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