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The inflationary trispectrum

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arxiv astro-ph/0610210 v2 pith:IE3JG3C6 submitted 2006-10-06 astro-ph gr-qchep-th

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We calculate the trispectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation generated by an epoch of slow-roll inflation in the early universe, and demonstrate that the non-gaussian signature imprinted at horizon crossing is unobservably small, of order tau_NL < r/50, where r < 1 is the tensor-to-scalar ratio. Therefore any primordial non-gaussianity observed in future microwave background experiments is likely to have been synthesized by gravitational effects on superhorizon scales. We discuss the application of Maldacena's consistency condition to the trispectrum.

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  2. Trispectrum in Extended USR Model with Transition to SR

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  3. A Match Made in Heaven: Linking Observables in Inflationary Cosmology

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