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Non-trivial checks of novel consistency relations

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/06/056

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inflation; primordial gravitational waves (theory); non-gaussianity; quantum field theory on curved space

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  1. NASA ATP grant [NNX11AI95G]
  2. NSF CAREER Award [PHY-1145525]
  3. University of Pennsylvania
  4. National Science Foundation [PHY-1316665, PHY-1214000]
  5. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
  6. Division Of Physics [1145525, 1001296] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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Single-field perturbations satisfy an infinite number of consistency relations constraining the squeezed limit of correlation functions at each order in the soft momentum. These can be understood as Ward identities for an infinite set of residual global symmetries, or equivalently as Slavnov-Taylor identities for spatial diffeomorphisms. In this paper, we perform a number of novel, non-trivial checks of the identities in the context of single field inflationary models with arbitrary sound speed. We focus for concreteness on identities involving 3-point functions with a soft external mode, and consider all possible scalar and tensor combinations for the hard-momentum modes. In all these cases, we check the consistency relations up to and including cubic order in the soft momentum. For this purpose, we compute for the first time the 3-point functions involving 2 scalars and 1 tensor, as well as 2 tensors and 1 scalar, for arbitrary sound speed.

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