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Curvature Spectra and Nongaussianities in the Roulette Inflation Model

arXiv:0809.2982 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/093

Abstract

Using the gradient expansion method of Rigopoulos, Shellard and van Tent which treats cosmological perturbations as gradients on top of a homogeneous and isotropic FRW background, we study the production of nongaussianities in the roulette model of inflation. Investigating a number of trajectories within this two-field model of inflation, we find that while the superhorizon influence of the isocurvature modes on the curvature bispectrum produces nonzero contribution to f_NL, the effect is negligible next to the standard inflationary prediction |f_NL| ~ n_s - 1. This is the case in both the squeezed and equilateral configurations of the bispectrum, although the former is slightly larger in the trajectories under consideration.

23 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, 1 appendix; Added references, slightly extended section 2

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