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We calculate the trispectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation generated by an epoch of slow-roll inflation in the early universe, and demonstrate that the non-gaussian signature imprinted at horizon crossing is unobservably small,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 David Seery , James E. Lidsey , Martin S. Sloth

We investigate non-Gaussianity in general multiple-field inflation using the formalism we developed in earlier papers. We use a perturbative expansion of the non-linear equations to calculate the three-point correlator of the curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. I. Rigopoulos , E. P. S. Shellard , B. J. W. van Tent

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

In this paper, we will use $\delta \mathcal{N}$-formalism to calculate the primordial curvature perturbation for the curvaton model with a Lagrange multiplier field. We calculate the non-linearity parameters $f_{NL}$ and $g_{NL}$ in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-27 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li

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 theory and methodology is developed to compute the bispectrum in warm inflation, leading to results for the non-linearity parameter and the shape of the bispectrum. Particular attention is paid to the study of the bispectrum in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 Mar Bastero-Gil , Arjun Berera , Ian G. Moss , Rudnei O. Ramos

It has been pointed out by several groups that ekpyrotic and cyclic models generate significant non-gaussianity. In this paper, we present a physically intuitive, semi-analytic estimate of the bispectrum. We show that, in all such models,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Jean-Luc Lehners , Paul J. Steinhardt

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

Tensor non-Gaussianity represents an important future probe of the physics of inflation. Inspired by recent works, we elaborate further on the possibility of significant primordial tensor non-Gaussianities sourced by extra fields during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

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

Using the quantum information picture to describe the early universe as a time dependent quantum density matrix, with time playing the role of a stochastic variable, we compute the non-gaussian features in the distribution of primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-19 Cesar Gomez , Raul Jimenez

A scalar field rolling down a potential with a large initial velocity results in inflation of a finite duration. Such a scenario suppresses the scalar power on large scales improving the fit to the cosmological data. We find that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 H. V. Ragavendra , Debika Chowdhury , L. Sriramkumar

We consider gravitational clustering from primoridal non-Gaussian fluctuations provided by a $\chi^2$ model, as motivated by some models of inflation. The emphasis is in signatures that can be used to constrain this type of models from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roman Scoccimarro

The strongest non-Gaussianity in single-scalar potential models of inflation is associated with features in the power spectrum. We stress the importance of accurately modelling the expected signal in order for the standard estimator to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 S. Basu , D. J. Brooker , N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

We analytically derive a more accurate formula for the power spectrum of the biased objects with the primordial non-Gaussianity parameterized not only by the non-linearity parameter fNL, but also by gNL and tauNL which characterize the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shuichiro Yokoyama , Takahiko Matsubara

We simulate CMB maps including non-Gaussianity arising from cubic order perturbations of the primordial gravitational potential, characterized by the non-linearity parameter $g_{NL}$. The maps are used to study the characteristic nature of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Pravabati Chingangbam , Changbom Park

We investigate the non-Gaussianity of primordial cosmological perturbations within our recently proposed holographic description of inflationary universes. We derive a holographic formula that determines the bispectrum of cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-16 Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

A red tilted primordial power spectrum is preferred by WMAP five-year data and a large positive local-type non-Gaussianity $f_{NL}$ might be observed as well. In this short note we find that a red tilted and large non-Gaussian primordial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Qing-Guo Huang

Primordial non-Gaussianity of local type is known to produce a scale-dependent contribution to the galaxy bias. Several classes of multi-field inflationary models predict non-Gaussian bias which is stochastic, in the sense that dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-05 Simone Ferraro , Kendrick M. Smith

We study the tilt of the primordial gravitational waves spectrum. A hint of blue tilt is shown from analyzing the BICEP2 and POLARBEAR data. Motivated by this, we explore the possibilities of blue tensor spectra from the very early universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yi Wang , Wei Xue