Mild quasi-local non-Gaussianity as a signature of modified gravity during inflation

Abstract

We show that modifications of Einstein gravity during inflation could leave potentially measurable imprints on cosmological observables in the form of non-Gaussian perturbations. This is due to the fact that these modifications appear in the form of an extra field that could have non-trivial interactions with the inflaton. We show it explicitly for the case $R+\alpha R^2$, where nearly scale-invariant non-Gaussianity at the level of $f_{\mathrm{NL}}\approx -(1$ to $30)$ can be obtained, in a quasi-local configuration.

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