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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 consider models of inflation that contain a transient non-slow-roll stage and investigate the conditions under which a dip appears in the power spectrum of the curvature perturbation. Using the $\delta N$ formalism, we derive a general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-19 Tomohiro Fujita , Ryodai Kawaguchi , Misao Sasaki , Yuichiro Tada

This paper considers warm inflation as an interesting application of multi-field inflation. Delta-N formalism is used for the calculation of the evolution of the curvature perturbations during warm inflation. Although the perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Tomohiro Matsuda

We formulate nonlinear perturbations of a scalar field dominated universe on super-horizon scales. We consider the case of a single scalar field. We take the gradient expansion approach. We adopt the uniform Hubble slicing and derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoshiharu Tanaka , Misao Sasaki

We propose a new approach for calculating the curvature perturbations produced during inflation in the stochastic formalism. In our formalism, the fluctuations of the e-foldings are directly calculated without perturbatively expanding the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-06 Tomohiro Fujita , Masahiro Kawasaki , Yuichiro Tada , Tomohiro Takesako

We provide a general formula for calculating correlators of arbitrary function of a Gaussian field. This work extends the standard leading-order approximation based on the delta N formalism to the case where truncation of the delta N at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Teruaki Suyama , Shuichiro Yokoyama

The non-Gaussian distribution of primordial perturbations has the potential to reveal the physical processes at work in the very early Universe. Local models provide a well-defined class of non-Gaussian distributions that arise naturally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 David Wands

We use a generalized delta N formalism to study the generation of the primordial curvature perturbation in the curvaton brane scenario inspired by stringy compactifications. We note that the non-Gaussian features, especially the trispectra,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-24 Yi-Fu Cai , Yi Wang

We give a concise formula for the non-Gaussianity of the primordial curvature perturbation generated on super-horizon scales in multi-scalar inflation model without assuming slow-roll conditions. This is an extension of our previous work.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-11 Shuichiro Yokoyama , Teruaki Suyama , Takahiro Tanaka

Understanding when inflationary perturbations become genuinely nonlinear near the horizon crossing requires methods that go beyond both linear perturbation theory and the gradient expansion. In this work, we introduce a nonlinear lattice…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Pankaj Saha , Yuichiro Tada , Yuko Urakawa

We describe a simple way of incorporating fluctuations of the Hubble scale during the horizon exit of scalar perturbations into the delta N formalism. The dominant effect comes from the dependence of the Hubble scale on low-frequency modes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-08-12 Christian T. Byrnes , Mischa Gerstenlauer , Arthur Hebecker , Sami Nurmi , Gianmassimo Tasinato

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 numerically investigated how the nonlinear dynamics depends on the dimensionality and on the higher-order curvature corrections in the form of Gauss-Bonnet (GB) terms. We especially monitored the processes of appearances of a singularity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-16 Hisa-aki Shinkai , Takashi Torii

Recently, the primordial non-Gaussianity in the curvaton model has been predicted assuming sudden decay of the curvaton. We extend the calculation to non-instantaneous decay by employing delta N -formalism. The difference between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jussi Valiviita , Misao Sasaki , David Wands

In view of cosmological parameters being measured to ever higher precision, theoretical predictions must also be computed to an equally high level of precision. In this work we investigate the impact on such predictions of relaxing some of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Mindaugas Karčiauskas , Kazunori Kohri , Taro Mori , Jonathan White

We conduct a thorough study of the comoving curvature perturbation $\mathcal{R}$ in single-field inflation with two stages, represented by a piecewise quadratic potential, where both the first and second derivatives are allowed to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Xinpeng Wang , Xiao-Han Ma , Misao Sasaki

Motivated by the gravity/fluid correspondence, we introduce a new method for characterizing nonlinear gravitational interactions. Namely we map the nonlinear perturbative form of the Einstein equation to the equations of motion of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-16 Huan Yang , Fan Zhang , Stephen R. Green , Luis Lehner

The focus of the thesis is to obtain a universal formalism to evaluate the perturbations during inflation at all orders that can be applied to any theory of gravity and matter source in the early universe. We first look at the equivalence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-10 Debottam Nandi

We introduce the theory of non-linear cosmological perturbations using the correspondence limit of the Schr\"odinger equation. The resulting formalism is equivalent to using the collisionless Boltzman (or Vlasov) equations which remain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Istvan Szapudi , Nick Kaiser

In our previous paper, we have proposed a new algorithm to calculate the power spectrum of the curvature perturbations generated in inflationary universe with use of the stochastic approach. Since this algorithm does not need the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 Tomohiro Fujita , Masahiro Kawasaki , Yuichiro Tada