On non-gaussianities in single-field inflation

Details On non-gaussianities in single-field inflation On non-gaussianities in single-field inflation

2003-06-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306122v2

JCAP 0310:003,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2003/10/003

We study the impact of higher dimension operators in the inflaton Lagrangian on the non-gaussianity of the scalar spectrum. These terms can strongly enhance the effect without spoiling slow-roll, though it is difficult to exceed f_NL ~ 1, because the scale which suppresses the operators cannot be too low, if we want the effective field theory description to make sense. In particular we explicitly calculate the 3-point function given by an higher derivative interaction of the form (\nabla\phi)^4, which is expected to give the most important contribution. The angular dependence of the result turns out to be quite different from the minimal case without higher dimension operators.

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