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Non-Gaussianity from Entanglement During Inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-07-24 v1

Abstract

We compute the bi-spectrum of CMB temperature fluctuations for a state where the metric perturbation ζ\zeta is entangled with a spectator scalar field χ\chi. Novel terms in the cubic ζ\zeta action coupled to the scalar can be the dominant contribution to the bi-spectrum for such states and we highlight the differences between this result and the no-entanglement bi-spectrum. New shapes can be important in the bi-spectra leading to distinctive observational signatures.

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@article{arxiv.1902.07567,
  title  = {Non-Gaussianity from Entanglement During Inflation},
  author = {Nadia Bolis and Andreas Albrecht and R. Holman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.07567},
  year   = {2019}
}

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17 pages, 7 figures

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