Galileon inflation

Abstract

Galileon inflation is a radiatively stable higher derivative model of inflation. The model is determined by a finite number of relevant operators which are protected by a covariant generalization of the Galileon shift symmetry. We show that the nongaussianity of the primordial density perturbation generated during an epoch of Galileon inflation is a particularly powerful observational probe of these models and that, when the speed of sound is small, fNL can be larger than the usual result fNL ~ 1/c_s^2.

13 pages, plus appendices and references. v2: some clarifications in introduction; missing references added. v3: discussion of Sec. IV.B clarified. Matches version published in JCAP. v4: typos corrected in (44)-(47). v5: some improvements to IV.B; sign error fixed in h4 term of (B25) and related numerical error in (47)

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