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arxiv: 0912.2796 · v3 · pith:VZHB6NQUnew · submitted 2009-12-15 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · gr-qc· hep-th

Non-Gaussianity from false vacuum inflation: Old curvaton scenario

classification 🌌 astro-ph.CO gr-qchep-th
keywords falsevacuumbispectrumcurvatonscenarioshapeadditioncalculate
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We calculate the three-point correlation function of the comoving curvature perturbation generated during an inflationary epoch driven by false vacuum energy. We get a novel false vacuum shape bispectrum, which peaks in the equilateral limit. Using this result, we propose a scenario which we call "old curvaton". The shape of the resulting bispectrum lies between the local and the false vacuum shapes. In addition we have a large running of the spectral index.

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