Full trispectrum in single field DBI inflation

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作者
Arroja, Frederico [1 ]
Mizuno, Shuntaro [2 ,3 ]
Koyama, Kazuya [4 ]
Tanaka, Takahiro [1 ]
机构
[1] Kyoto Univ, Yukawa Inst Theoret Phys, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[2] Univ Nottingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England
[3] Univ Tokyo, RESCEU, Grad Sch Sci, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[4] Univ Portsmouth, Inst Cosmol & Gravitat, Portsmouth PO1 2EG, Hants, England
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2009年 / 80卷 / 04期
关键词
MULTI-BRID INFLATION; NON-GAUSSIANITY; K-INFLATION; PERTURBATIONS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.043527
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
070403 [天体物理学];
摘要
We compute the tree-level connected four-point function of the primordial curvature perturbation for a fairly general minimally coupled single field inflationary model, where the inflaton's Lagrangian is a general function of the scalar field and its first derivatives. This model includes K inflation and DBI inflation as particular cases. We show that, at the leading order in the slow-roll expansion and in the small sound speed limit, there are two important tree-level diagrams for the trispectrum. One is a diagram where a scalar mode is exchanged and the other is a diagram where the interaction occurs at a point, i.e. a contact interaction diagram. The scalar exchange contribution is comparable to the contact interaction contribution. For the DBI-inflation model, in the so-called equilateral configuration, the scalar exchange trispectrum is maximized when the angles between the four momentum vectors are equal and in this case the amplitude of the trispectrum from the scalar exchange is 1 order of magnitude higher than the contact interaction trispectrum.
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