Since a positive future detection of nonlinearity in the cosmic microwave background anisotropy pattern might allow us to descriminate among different mechanisms giving rise to cosmological adiabatic perturbations, we study the evolution of the second-order cosmological curvature perturbation on superhorizon scales in the curvaton scenario. We provide the exact expression for the non-Gaussianity in the primordial perturbations including gravitational second-order corrections which are particularly relevant in the case in which the curvaton dominates the energy density before it decays. As a by-product, we show that in the standard scenario where cosmological curvature perturbations are induced by the inflaton field, the second-order curvature perturbation is conserved even during the reheating stage after inflation.
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