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Trispectrum in Extended USR Model with Transition to SR

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-09-12 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the trispectrum in a two-phase USR-SR setup of inflation in which the USR stage is extended in the initial phase of inflation while the second stage of inflation proceeds via a slow-roll phase. A key role is played by the sharpness parameter which controls how quickly the system reaches the final attractor phase after the USR stage. We employ both δN\delta N and in-in formalisms and calculate trispectrum and the corresponding dimensionless parameters gNLg_{NL} and τNL\tau_{NL}. We show that both approaches yield the same results and study the shapes of trispectrum in various configurations. It is shown that the maximum value of trispectrum occurs in the setup with an infinitely sharp transition to the attractor phase while much of trispectrum is washed out in the opposite limit of a mild transition.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2509.09608,
  title  = {Trispectrum in Extended USR Model with Transition to SR},
  author = {Hassan Firouzjahi and Amin Nassiri-Rad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.09608},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

27 pages, 4 figures

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