Combined local and equilateral non-Gaussianities from multifield DBI inflation

Details Combined local and equilateral non-Gaussianities from multifield DBI inflation Combined local and equilateral non-Gaussianities from multifield DBI inflation

2009-07-15

arxiv.org/abs/0907.2476v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

38 pages, 11 figures. Typos corrected; references added. This version matches the one in press by JCAP

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We study multifield aspects of Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) inflation. More specifically, we consider an inflationary phase driven by the radial motion of a D-brane in a conical throat and determine how the D-brane fluctuations in the angular directions can be converted into curvature perturbations when the tachyonic instability arises at the end of inflation. The simultaneous presence of multiple fields and non-standard kinetic terms gives both local and equilateral shapes for non-Gaussianities in the bispectrum. We also study the trispectrum, pointing out that it acquires a particular momentum dependent component whose amplitude is given by $f_{NL}^{loc} f_{NL}^{eq}$. We show that this relation is valid in every multifield DBI model, in particular for any brane trajectory, and thus constitutes an interesting observational signature of such scenarios.

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