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We point out that a light scalar field fluctuating around a symmetry-enhaced point can generate large non-Gaussianity in density fluctuations. We name such a particle as an "ungaussiton", a scalar field dominantly produced by the quantum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Teruaki Suyama , Fuminobu Takahashi

We investigate in detail the spectrum of gravitational waves induced by a peaked primordial curvature power spectrum generated in single field inflationary models. We argue that the $f_{\rm NL}$ parameter can be inferred by measuring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Vicente Atal , Guillem Domènech

We study the non-linear evolution of the curvature perturbations during matter dominated era. We show that regardless of the origin of the primordial perturbation, the Bardeen potential and curvature receive sizable contributions from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Jai-chan Hwang , Hyerim Noh

Primordial non-Gaussianity generated in an inflationary model where inflation is preceded by a radiation era is discussed. It is shown that both bispectrum and trispectrum non-Gaussianities are enhanced due to the presence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-04 Suratna Das

This paper is the third in a series of theorems which state how cosmological observations can provide evidence for an early phase of acceleration in the universe. Previous theorems demonstrated that the observed power spectrum for scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Ghazal Geshnizjani , William H. Kinney

The late-time effect of primordial non-Gaussianity offers a window into the physics of inflation and the very early Universe. In this work we study the consequences of a particular class of primordial non-Gaussianity that is fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 G. A. Peña , G. N. Candlish

We study how to probe bispectra of stochastic gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays. The bispectrum is a key to probe the origin of stochastic gravitational waves. In particular, the shape of the bispectrum carries valuable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-25 Makoto Tsuneto , Asuka Ito , Toshifumi Noumi , Jiro Soda

We show that the contribution of the primordial trispectrum to the energy density of the scalar-induced stochastic gravitational wave background cannot exceed the one from the scalar power spectrum in conventional inflationary scenarios.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Lucas Pinol , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Denis Werth

In modified gravity theories, the gravitational waves propagation are presented in nonstandard ways. We consider a friction term different from GR and constrain the modified gravitational waves propagation from observations. The modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-12 Jun Li

This paper explores the physics of second-order gravitational waves (GWs) induced by scalar-tensor perturbation interactions in the radiation-dominated Universe. We investigate the distinctive signatures of these GWs and their detectability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Pritha Bari , Nicola Bartolo , Guillem Domènech , Sabino Matarrese

We consider the evolution of the gravitational wave spectrum for super-Hubble modes in interaction with a relativistic fluid, which is regarded as an effective description of fluctuations in a light scalar minimally coupled field, during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-24 N. Miron Granese , E. Calzetta

We propose a testable alternative to inflation directly built in a very general class of ultraviolet complete theories of quantum gravity enjoying Weyl invariance. After the latter is spontaneously broken, logarithmic quantum corrections to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Gianluca Calcagni , Leonardo Modesto

Primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) generate scalar density perturbations at second order. Since the induced density contrast is quadratic in the tensor field, it is intrinsically non-Gaussian. We study the imprint of this tensor-induced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Mariam Abdelaziz , Pritha Bari , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

Next-generation galaxy surveys will increasingly rely on the galaxy bispectrum to improve cosmological constraints, especially on primordial non-Gaussianity. A key theoretical requirement that remains to be developed is the analysis of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Obinna Umeh , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens , Chris Clarkson

We calculate the squeezed limit of the bispectrum produced by inflation with multiple light fields. To achieve this we allow for different horizon exit times for each mode and calculate the intrinsic field-space three-point function in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 Zachary Kenton , David J. Mulryne

The bispectrum provides a characteristic signature of gravitational instability that can be used to probe the Gaussianity of the initial conditions and the bias of the galaxy distribution. We study how this signature is affected by redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Roman Scoccimarro , H. M. P. Couchman , Joshua A. Frieman

The almost scale-invariant spectrum for the stochastic background wave (in primordial Universe) is a firm prediction of inflationary scenarios. In the present work, to study of primordial Gravitational Waves, one dimensional toy model in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Taimur Mohammadi , Behrooz Malekolkalami

In this work, we revisit and evaluate new source terms which contribute to the induced gravitational wave background. We study their respective contributions to the stochastic gravitational wave background by computing their spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Raphael Picard , Luis E. Padilla , Karim A. Malik , David J. Mulryne

We propose a new mechanism to generate primordial curvature perturbations, based on the resonant production of particles during inflation. It is known that this phenomenon can trap the inflaton for a fraction of e-fold. This effect is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 David Langlois , Lorenzo Sorbo

Using a large N sigma model approximation we explicitly calculate the power spectrum of gravitational waves arising from a global phase transition in the early universe and we confirm that it is scale invariant, implying an observation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Katherine Jones-Smith , Lawrence M. Krauss , Harsh Mathur