Observational Signatures and Non-Gaussianities of General Single Field Inflation

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2006-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0605045v4

JCAP 0701:002,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

53 pages, 5 figures; v3, minor revision, JCAP version; v4, numerical coefficients corrected in Appendix B, discussion on consi

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2007/01/002

We perform a general study of primordial scalar non-Gaussianities in single field inflationary models in Einstein gravity. We consider models where the inflaton Lagrangian is an arbitrary function of the scalar field and its first derivative, and the sound speed is arbitrary. We find that under reasonable assumptions, the non-Gaussianity is completely determined by 5 parameters. In special limits of the parameter space, one finds distinctive ``shapes'' of the non-Gaussianity. In models with a small sound speed, several of these shapes would become potentially observable in the near future. Different limits of our formulae recover various previously known results.

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