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We calculate the perturbed action, at second and third order, for a massive three-form field minimally coupled to gravity, and use it to explore the observational predictions of three-form inflation. One intriguing result is that the value…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-11 David J. Mulryne , Johannes Noller , Nelson J. Nunes

We study a cosmological scenario in which the DBI action governing the motion of a D3-brane in a higher-dimensional spacetime is supplemented with an induced gravity term. The latter reduces to the quartic Galileon Lagrangian when the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Sebastien Renaux-Petel , Shuntaro Mizuno , Kazuya Koyama

We construct explicit models of multi-field inflation in which the primordial metric fluctuations do not necessarily obey Gaussian statistics. These models are realizations of mechanisms in which non-Gaussianity is first generated by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Francis Bernardeau , Jean-Philippe Uzan

We present an estimate for the non-linear parameter \tau_NL, which measures the non-gaussianity imprinted in the trispectrum of the comoving curvature perturbation, \zeta. Our estimate is valid throughout the inflationary era, until the…

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

We calculate the shape correlations between trispectra in various equilateral non-Gaussian models, including DBI inflation, ghost inflation and Lifshitz scalars, using the full trispectrum as well as the reduced trispectum. We find that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-06 Keisuke Izumi , Shuntaro Mizuno , Kazuya Koyama

We study the non-Gaussianity generated during multiple-field inflation. We provide an exact expression for the bispectrum parameter f_NL which is valid beyond the slow-roll regime, valid for certain classes of inflationary models. We then…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-04 Christian T. Byrnes , Gianmassimo Tasinato

We present a simple way to calculate non-Gaussianity in inflation using fully non-linear equations on long wavelengths with stochastic sources to take into account the short-wavelength quantum fluctuations. Our formalism includes both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. I. Rigopoulos , E. P. S. Shellard , B. J. W. van Tent

A class of non-canonical inflationary models is identified, where the leading-order contribution to the non-Gaussianity of the curvature perturbation is determined by the sound speed of the fluctuations in the inflaton field. Included in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ian Huston , James E. Lidsey , Steven Thomas , John Ward

In this paper we examine the IR inflation scenario using the DBI action, where we have $N$ multiple branes located near the tip of a warped geometry. At large $N$ the solutions are similar in form to the more traditional single brane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven thomas , John Ward

We investigate the non-Gaussianities of inflation driven by a single scalar field coupling non-minimally to the Einstein Gravity. We assume that the form of the scalar field is very general with an arbitrary sound speed. For convenience to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-27 Taotao Qiu , Kwei-Chou Yang

In this paper we investigate the inflationary phenomenology of an Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory compatible with the GW170817 event, by imposing the constant-roll evolution on the scalar field. We develop the constant-roll GW170817-compatible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-15 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou , F. P. Fronimos , S. A. Venikoudis

We study the slow-roll inflation models, where the inflaton slow-rolls along a trajectory whose orthogonal directions are lifted by potentials with masses of order the Hubble parameter. In these models large non-Gaussianities can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Xingang Chen , Yi Wang

In this paper, we use the result in [7] to calculate the non-Gaussianity of the racetrack models in [3, 5]. The two models give different non- Gaussianities. Both of them are reasonable.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-19 Cheng-Yi Sun , De-Hai Zhang

The primordial non-Gaussian parameter fNL has been shown to be scale-dependent in several models of inflation with a variable speed of sound. Starting from a simple ansatz for a scale-dependent amplitude of the primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 Emiliano Sefusatti , Michele Liguori , Amit P. S. Yadav , Mark G. Jackson , Enrico Pajer

We describe a two-field model that generalizes Natural Inflation, in which the inflaton is the pseudo-Goldstone boson of an approximate symmetry that is spontaneously broken, and the radial mode is dynamical. We analyze how the dynamics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Simon Riquelme

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

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 study the effect of non-trivial sound speeds on local-type non-Gaussianity during multiple-field inflation. To this end, we consider a model of multiple-field DBI and use the deltaN formalism to track the super-horizon evolution of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-07 Jon Emery , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

An upper bound on the amplitude of the primordial gravitational wave spectrum generated during ultra-violet DBI inflation is derived. The bound is insensitive to the form of the inflaton potential and the warp factor of the compactified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 James E. Lidsey , Ian Huston

This paper presents and investigates non-Gaussian perturbations for the warm k-inflation model that is driven by pure kinetic energy. The two complementary components of the overall non-Gaussianity are the three-point and four-point…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 Chao-Qun Shen , Xiao-Min Zhang , Zhi-Peng Peng , He Liu , Xi-Bin Li , Peng-Cheng Chu