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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 generic inference method for inflation models from observational data by the usage of higher-order statistics of the curvature perturbation on uniform density hypersurfaces. This method is based on the calculation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 Sebastian Dorn , Erandy Ramirez , Kerstin E. Kunze , Stefan Hofmann , Torsten A. Enßlin

We investigate the primordial non-Gaussianities from the trispectra in multi-field inflation models, which can be seen as generalization of multi-field $k$-inflation and multi-DBI inflation. We derive the full fourth-order perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Xian Gao , Miao Li , Chunshan Lin

We study the bispectrum of the curvature perturbation on uniform energy density hypersurfaces in models of inflation with two scalar fields evolving simultaneously. In the case of a separable potential, it is possible to compute the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Filippo Vernizzi , 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

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

It has been pointed out that matter bounce cosmology driven by a k-essence field cannot satisfy simultaneously the observational bounds on the tensor-to-scalar ratio and non-Gaussianity of the curvature perturbation. In this paper, we show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-26 Shingo Akama , Shin'ichi Hirano , Tsutomu Kobayashi

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

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

In our previous work the nonlinearity parameter f_NL, which characterizes nongaussianity in the cosmic microwave background, was estimated for a class of inflationary models based on nonlocal field theory. These models include p-adic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-25 Neil Barnaby , James M. Cline

We perform a general study of the primordial scalar non-Gaussianities in multi-field inflationary models in Einstein gravity. We consider models governed by a Lagrangian which is a general function of the scalar fields and their first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Xian Gao

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 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

In [1], a most general higher curvature non-local gravity action was derived that admits a particular $R^2$-like inflationary solution predicting the spectral index of primordial scalar perturbations $n_s(N)\approx 1-\frac{2}{N}$, where $N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-18 Alexey S. Koshelev , K. Sravan Kumar , Alexei A. Starobinsky

In this review, we discuss how non-Gaussianity of cosmological perturbations arises from inflation. After introducing the in-in formalism to calculate the $n$-point correlation function of quantum fields, we present the computation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Kazuya Koyama

In the Horndeski's most general scalar-tensor theories, we derive the three-point correlation function of scalar non-Gaussianities generated during single-field inflation in the presence of slow-variation corrections to the leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

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

In this paper, we investigated inflationary solutions for a subclass of Horndeski models where a scalar field is non-minimally coupled with the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. Examples of canonical scalar field and $k$-essence to support the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-29 Ratbay Myrzakulov , Lorenzo Sebastiani

We use the delta N-formalism to describe the leading order contributions to the primordial power spectrum, bispectrum and trispectrum in multiple-field models of inflation at leading order in a perturbative expansion. In slow-roll models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian T. Byrnes , Misao Sasaki , David Wands

This is a pedagogical review on primordial non-Gaussianities from inflation models. We introduce formalisms and techniques that are used to compute such quantities. We review different mechanisms which can generate observable large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-10 Xingang Chen
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