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Inflationary consistency conditions from a wavefunctional perspective

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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 2, Pages -

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2014)124

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Classical Theories of Gravity; Models of Quantum Gravity

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It is shown that the squeezed limit of inflationary expectation values follows from reparametrization invariance of the wavefunction of the universe. This translates into a constraint on the longitudinal modes of functional derivatives of the wavefunction. Thus, the local non-Gaussianity induced by single field inflation is purely a gauge artifact. We focus on Einstein gravity in de Sitter space and single field inflation, although the formalism only relies on the diffeomorphisrn invariance of the theory, and thus applies to any theory of gravity.

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