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arxiv: 1606.03343 · v2 · pith:KRXS4T2Nnew · submitted 2016-06-10 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · gr-qc· hep-ph· hep-th

Consistency relation and inflaton field redefinition in the delta N formalism

classification 🌌 astro-ph.CO gr-qchep-phhep-th
keywords deltafieldformalismnon-gaussianityconsistencyinflatonintrinsicredefinition
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We compute for general single-field inflation the intrinsic non-Gaussianity due to the self-interactions of the inflaton field in the squeezed limit. We recover the consistency relation in the context of the delta N formalism, and argue that there is a particular field redefinition that makes the intrinsic non-Gaussianity vanishing, thus improving the estimate of the local non-Gaussianity using the delta N formalism.

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