期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/01/024
关键词
inflation; physics of the early universe; quantum field theory on curved space; cosmological perturbation theory
资金
- Cambridge Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC)
- STFC
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/F002998/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/F002998/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We present a novel method for calculating the primordial non-Gaussianity produced by super-horizon evolution during inflation. Our method evolves the distribution of coarse-grained inflationary field values using a transport equation. We present simple evolution equations for the moments of this distribution, such as the variance and skewness. This method possesses some advantages over existing techniques. Among them, it cleanly separates multiple sources of primordial non-Gaussianity, and is computationally efficient when compared with popular alternatives, such as the delta N framework. We adduce numerical calculations demonstrating that our new method offers good agreement with those already in the literature. We focus on two fields and the f(NL) parameter, but we expect our method will generalize to multiple scalar fields and to moments of arbitrarily high order. We present our expressions in a field-space covariant form which we postulate to be valid for any number of fields.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据