Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-10-13
Phys.Rev.D75:043505,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, uses RevTeX4. v2, replaced with version accepted by Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.043505
We study brane inflation scenarios in a warped throat geometry and show that there exists a consistency condition between the non-Gaussianity of the curvature perturbation and the amplitude and scale-dependence of the primordial gravitational waves. This condition is independent of the warping of the throat and the form of the inflaton potential. We find that such a relation could be tested by a future CMB polarization experiment if the Planck satellite is able to detect both a gravitational wave background and a non-Gaussian statistic. In models where the observable stage of inflation occurs when the brane is in the tip region of the throat, we derive a further consistency condition involving the scalar spectral index, the tensor-scalar ratio and the curvature perturbation bispectrum. We show that when such a relation is combined with the WMAP3 results, it leads to a model-independent bound on the gravitational wave amplitude given by 0.001 < r < 0.01. This corresponds to the range of sensitivity of the next generation of CMB polarization experiments.
Lidsey James E.
Seery David
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