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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

We consider a two-field model for inflation where the second order metric perturbations can be amplified by a parametric resonance during preheating. We demonstrate that there can arise a considerable enhancement of non-Gaussianity sourced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kari Enqvist , Asko Jokinen , Anupam Mazumdar , Tuomas Multamaki , Antti Vaihkonen

Non-Gaussianity generated in inflation can be contributed by two parts. The first part, denoted by $f_{NL}^{\delta N}$, is the contribution from four-point correlation of inflaton field which can be calculated using $\delta N$ formalism,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-06 Xiao-Min Zhang , Hong-Yang Ma , Peng-Cheng Chu , Jian-Yang Zhu

This is a review of models of inflation and of their predictions for the primordial non-Gaussianity in the density perturbations which are thought to be at the origin of structures in the Universe. Non-Gaussianity emerges as a key…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Bartolo , E. Komatsu , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

We study the dependence on configuration in momentum space of the primordial 3-point function of density perturbations in several different scenarios: standard slow-roll inflation, curvaton and variable decay models, ghost inflation, models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Daniel Babich , Paolo Creminelli , Matias Zaldarriaga

Detection of primordial non-Gaussianity will give us an unprecedented detail of the physics of inflation. As observational probes are now exploring new expanses of the inflationary landscape, it is crucial to distinguish and disentangle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-16 Sirichai Chongchitnan

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

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

We use the long-wavelength formalism to compute the bispectral non-Gaussianity produced in two-field inflation. We find an exact result that is used as the basis of numerical studies, and an explicit analytical slow-roll expression for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Eleftheria Tzavara , Bartjan van Tent

The general kind noncanonical warm inflation is introduced and its total non-Gaussianity of perturbation on uniform energy density hypersurfaces is studied. The total non-Gaussianity contains two complementary parts: the three- and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-19 Xiao-Min Zhang , Kai Li , Hong-Yang Ma , Qian Liu , Jian-Yang Zhu

We describe a general scenario where primordial non-Gaussian curvature perturbations are generated in models with extra scalar fields. The extra scalars communicate to the inflaton sector mainly through the tachyonic (waterfall) field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bhaskar Dutta , Jason Kumar , Louis Leblond

A model of multi-component hybrid inflation, dubbed multi-brid inflation, in which various observable quantities including the non-Gaussianity parameter f_{NL} can be analytically calculated was proposed recently. In particular, for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Atsushi Naruko , Misao Sasaki

We explore the superhorizon generation of large fnl of the local form in two field inflation. We calculate the two- and three-point observables in a general class of potentials which allow for an analytic treatment using the delta N…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-17 Joel Meyers , Navin Sivanandam

We analyze primordial non-Gaussianity in single field inflationary models when the tensor/scalar ratio is large. Our results show that detectable levels of non-Gaussianity $f_{NL} \sim 50$ are still possible in the simplest class of models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-19 Guido D'Amico , Matthew Kleban

We study the non-Gaussian features in single-field slow-roll inflationary scenario where inflation is preceded by a radiation era. In such a scenario both bispectrum and trispectrum non-Gaussianities are enhanced. Interestingly, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 Suratna Das

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

In the present paper, certain inflation models are shown to have large non-Gaussianity in special cases. Namely, finite length inflation models with an effective higher derivative interaction, in which slow-roll inflation is adopted as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-26 Shiro Hirai , Tomoyuki Takami

We study non-Gaussianity, the spectral index of primordial scalar fluctuations and tensor modes in models where fluctuations from the inflaton and the curvaton can both contribute to the present cosmic density fluctuations. Even though…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazuhide Ichikawa , Teruaki Suyama , Tomo Takahashi , Masahide Yamaguchi

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

The non-Gaussianity of inflationary perturbations, as encoded in the bispectrum (or 3-point correlator), has become an important additional way of distinguishing between inflation models, going beyond the linear Gaussian perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-23 Bartjan van Tent