Curvature spectra and nongaussianities in the roulette inflation model
Aaron C. Vincent; James M. Cline; Aaron C. Vincent; Department of Physics, Rutherford Physics Building, McGill University, 3600 Rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada; James M. Cline; Department of Physics, Rutherford Physics Building, McGill University, 3600 Rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada
Журнал:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Дата:
2008-10-01
Аннотация:
Using the gradient expansion method of Rigopoulos, Shellard and van Tent which treats cosmological perturbations as gradients on top of a homogeneous and isotropic FRW background, we study the production of nongaussianities in the roulette model of inflation. Investigating a number of trajectories within this two-field model of inflation, we find that while the superhorizon influence of the isocurvature modes on the curvature bispectrum produces nonzero contribution to f<sub>NL</sub>, the effect is negligible next to the standard inflationary prediction |f<sub>NL</sub>| ∼ n<sub>s</sub>−1. This is the case in both the squeezed and equilateral configurations of the bispectrum, although the former is slightly larger in the trajectories under consideration.
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