Evolution of fNL to the adiabatic limit
Evolution of fNL to the adiabatic limit
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fNL 演化至绝热极限
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2011
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通讯作者:
R. Tavakol
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作者:
Joseph Elliston;D. Mulryne;D. Seery;R. Tavakol
We study inflationary perturbations in multiple-field models, for which ζ typically evolves until all isocurvature modes decay — the adiabatic limit. We use numerical methods to explore the sensitivity of the local-shape bispectrum to the process by which this limit is achieved, finding an appreciable dependence on model-specific data such as the time at which slow-roll breaks down or the timescale of reheating. In models with a sum-separable potential where the isocurvature modes decay before the end of the slow-roll phase we give an analytic criterion for the asymptotic value of fNL to be large. Other examples can be constructed using a waterfall field to terminate inflation while fNL is transiently large, caused by descent from a ridge or convergence into a valley. We show that these two types of evolution are distinguished by the sign of the bispectrum, and give approximate expressions for the peak fNL.
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Adam J. Christopherson;Karim A. Malik
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Adam J. Christopherson;Karim A. Malik