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The inflationary trispectrum

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We calculate the trispectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation generated by an epoch of slow-roll inflation in the early universe, and demonstrate that the non-gaussian signature imprinted at horizon crossing is unobservably small, of order tau_NL < r/50, where r < 1 is the tensor-to-scalar ratio. Therefore any primordial non-gaussianity observed in future microwave background experiments is likely to have been synthesized by gravitational effects on superhorizon scales. We discuss the application of Maldacena's consistency condition to the trispectrum.

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Three Advanced Lectures on Inflation

hep-th · 2026-06-04 · unverdicted · novelty 0.0

Lecture notes providing an advanced introduction to primordial inflation theory and perturbation theory in slow-roll and quasi-de Sitter spacetimes.

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  • A Match Made in Heaven: Linking Observables in Inflationary Cosmology hep-th · 2025-05-21 · unverdicted · none · ref 76 · internal anchor

    In dynamical Chern-Simons inflation the parity-odd trispectrum is a double copy of the mixed bispectrum and parity-odd power spectrum via a prior factorization formula.

  • Three Advanced Lectures on Inflation hep-th · 2026-06-04 · unverdicted · none · ref 36 · internal anchor

    Lecture notes providing an advanced introduction to primordial inflation theory and perturbation theory in slow-roll and quasi-de Sitter spacetimes.