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CMB B-mode auto-bispectrum produced by primordial gravitational waves

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arxiv 1704.08904 v1 pith:JGYFFFTN submitted 2017-04-28 astro-ph.CO gr-qc

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keywords fieldwavescouplinggeneralgravitationalnon-gaussianitiesonlypolarization
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Gravitational waves from inflation induce polarization patterns in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It is known that there are only two types of non-Gaussianities of the gravitaional waves in the most general scalar field theories having second-order field equations. One originates from the inherent non-Gaussianity in general relativity, and the other from a derivative coupling between the Einstein tensor and a kinetic term of the scalar field. We calculate polarization bispectra induced by these non-Gaussianities by transforming them into separable forms by virtue of the Laplace transformation. It is shown that future experiments can detect only the new one if the latter coupling parameter takes an extremely large value, which, however, does not cotradict the current observational data.

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