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On the full quantum trispectrum in multi-field DBI inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-29 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We compute the leading order connected four-point function of the primordial curvature perturbation coming from the four-point function of the fields in multi-field DBI inflation models. We confirm that the consistency relations in the squeezed limit and in the counter-collinear limit hold as in single field models thanks to special properties of the DBI action. We also study the momentum dependence of the trispectra coming from the adiabatic, mixed and purely entropic contributions separately and we find that they have different momentum dependence. This means that if the amount of the transfer from the entropy perturbations to the curvature perturbation is significantly large, the trispectrum can distinguish multi-field DBI inflation models from single field DBI inflation models. A large amount of transfer TRS1T_{\mathcal{RS}} \gg 1 suppresses the tensor to scalar ratio rTRS2r \propto T_{\mathcal{RS}}^{-2} and the amplitude of the bispectrum fNLequiTRS2f_{NL}^{equi} \propto T_{\mathcal{RS}}^{-2} and so it can ease the severe observational constraints on the DBI inflation model based on string theory. On the other hand, it enhances the amplitude of the trispectrum τNLequiTRS2fNLequi2\tau_{NL}^{equi} \propto T_{\mathcal{RS}}^2 f_{NL}^{equi 2} for a given amplitude of the bispectrum.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2439,
  title  = {On the full quantum trispectrum in multi-field DBI inflation},
  author = {Shuntaro Mizuno and Frederico Arroja and Kazuya Koyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2439},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

22 pages, 10 figures, minor corrections, references are added, published version in PRD

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