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arxiv 0911.3380 v4 pith:AOZUXMB3 submitted 2009-11-17 hep-th astro-ph.COhep-ph

Quasi-Single Field Inflation and Non-Gaussianities

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In quasi-single field inflation models, massive isocurvature modes, that are coupled to the inflaton and have mass of order the Hubble parameter, can have nontrivial impacts on density perturbations, especially non-Gaussianities. We study a simple example of quasi-single field inflation in terms of turning inflaton trajectory. Large bispectra with a one-parameter family of novel shapes arise, lying between the well-known local and equilateral shape. The trispectra can also be very large and its magnitude tNL can be much larger than fNL squared.

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