Vanishing of local non-Gaussianity in canonical single field inflation

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作者
Bravo, Rafael [1 ]
Mooij, Sander [1 ,2 ]
Palma, Gonzalo A. [1 ]
Pradenas, Bastian [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Chile, Dept Fis, FCFM, Grp Cosmol & Astrofis Teor, Blanco Encalada 2008, Santiago, Chile
[2] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Lab Particle Phys & Cosmol, Inst Phys, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
关键词
cosmological perturbation theory; inflation; PERTURBATIONS; FLATNESS; UNIVERSE; HORIZON;
D O I
10.1088/1475-7516/2018/05/025
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We study the production of observable primordial local non-Gaussianity in two opposite regimes of canonical single field inflation: attractor (standard single field slow-roll inflation) and non attractor (ultra slow-roll inflation). In the attractor regime, the standard derivation of the bispectrum's squeezed limit using co-moving coordinates gives the well known Maldacena's consistency relation f(NL) = 5 (1 - n(s))/12. On the other hand, in the non-attractor regime, the squeezed limit offers a substantial violation of this relation given by f(NL) = 5/2. In this work we argue that, independently of whether inflation is attractor or non-attractor, the size of the observable primordial local non-Gaussianity is predicted to be f(NL)(obs) = 0 (a result that was already understood to hold in the case of attractor models). To show this, we follow the use of the so-called Conformal Fermi Coordinates (CFC), recently introduced in the literature. These coordinates parametrize the local environment of inertial observers in a perturbed FRW spacetime, allowing one to identify and compute gauge invariant quantities, such as n-point correlation functions. Concretely, we find that during inflation, after all the modes have exited the horizon, the squeezed limit of the 3-point correlation function of curvature perturbations vanishes in the CFC frame, regardless of the inflationary regime. We argue that such a cancellation should persist after inflation ends.
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