Abstract
Employing an effective field theory approach to inflationary perturbations, we analyze in detail the effect of curvature-generated Lagrangian operators on various observables, focusing on their running with scales. At quadratic order, we solve the equation of motion at next-to-leading leading order in a generalized slow-roll approximation for a very general theory of single-field inflation. We derive the resulting power spectrum, its tilt and running. We then focus on the contribution to the primordial non-Gaussianity amplitude f_{NL} sourced by a specific interaction term. We show that the running of f_{NL} can be substantially larger than what dictated by the slow-roll parameters.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 026 |
Journal | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Volume | 2010 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 29 Dec 2010 |
Keywords
- astro-ph.CO
- gr-qc
- hep-ph
- hep-th