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arxiv: 1103.1740 · v2 · pith:KTXTNKM5new · submitted 2011-03-09 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph.CO· gr-qc· hep-ph

Primordial non-Gaussianity from G-inflation

classification ✦ hep-th astro-ph.COgr-qchep-ph
keywords g-inflationlagrangianprimordialallowingamplitudebispectrumclarifyclass
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We present a comprehensive study of primordial fluctuations generated from G-inflation, in which the inflaton Lagrangian is of the form $K(\phi, X)-G(\phi, X)\Box\phi$ with $X=-(\partial\phi)^2/2$. The Lagrangian still gives rise to second-order gravitational and scalar field equations, and thus offers a more generic class of single-field inflation than ever studied, with a richer phenomenology. We compute the power spectrum and the bispectrum, and clarify how the non-Gaussian amplitude depends upon parameters such as the sound speed. In so doing we try to keep as great generality as possible, allowing for non slow-roll and deviation from the exact scale-invariance.

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