Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/12/039
Keywords
inflation; non-gaussianity; cosmological perturbation theory
Funding
- Stephen Hawking Advanced Fellowship
- [21244033]
- STFC [ST/I002006/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21244033] Funding Source: KAKEN
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/I002006/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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In non-attractor single-field inflation models producing a scale-invariant power spectrum, the curvature perturbation on super-horizon scales grows as R proportional to a(3). This is so far the only known class of self-consistent single-field models with a Bunch-Davies initial state that can produce a large squeezed-limit bispectrum violating Maldacena's consistency relation. Given the importance of this result, we calculate the bispectrum with three different methods: using quantum field theory calculations in two different gauges, and classical calculations (the delta N formalism). All the results agree, giving the local-form bispectrum parameter of f(NL)(local) = 5(1 + c(2)(s))/(c(2)(s)). This result is valid for arbitrary values of the speed of sound parameter, c(s), for a particular non-attractor model we consider in this paper.
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