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On Non-Gaussianity in the Curvaton Scenario

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arxiv hep-ph/0309033 v3 pith:4EWJQQEZ submitted 2003-09-03 hep-ph

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keywords cosmologicalcurvatoncurvatureperturbationsscenariosecond-ordernon-gaussianityperturbation
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Since a positive future detection of non-linearity in the cosmic microwave background anisotropy pattern might allow to descriminate among different mechanisms giving rise to cosmological adiabatic perturbations, we study the evolution of the second-order cosmological curvature perturbation on super-horizon scales in the curvaton scenario. We provide the exact expression for the non-Gaussianity in the primordial perturbations including gravitational second-order corrections which are particularly relevant in the case in which the curvaton dominates the energy density before it decays. As a byproduct, we show that in the standard scenario where cosmological curvature perturbations are induced by the inflaton field, the second-order curvature perturbation is conserved even during the reheating stage after inflation.

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