On the squeezed limit of the bispectrum in general single field inflation

Details On the squeezed limit of the bispectrum in general single field inflation On the squeezed limit of the bispectrum in general single field inflation

2010-08-02

arxiv.org/abs/1008.0260v1

JCAP 1010:020,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

28 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2010/10/020

We investigate the consistency relation relating the squeezed limit of the bispectrum to the scalar spectral index in single field models of inflation. We give a simple integral formula for the bispectrum in the squeezed limit in terms of the free mode mode functions of the primordial curvature perturbation, in any Lorentz invariant single field model of inflation and without resorting to any approximation, generalizing a recent result obtained by Ganc and Komatsu in the case of canonical kinetic terms. We use our result to verify the consistency relation in an exactly solvable class of models with a non-trivial speed of sound. We then verify the consistency relation at the first non-trivial order in the slow-varying approximation in general single field inflation (a known result) and at second order in this approximation in canonical single field inflation.

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