PT Journal
AU Agullo, I
   Navarro-Salas, J
   Parker, L
TI Enhanced local-type inflationary trispectrum from a non-vacuum initial state
SO Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JI J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
PY 2012
BP 019
EP 13pp
VL 05
IS 5
DI 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/05/019
LA English
DE inflation; non-gaussianity; quantum field theory on curved space; cosmological perturbation theory
AB We compute the primordial trispectrum for curvature perturbations produced during cosmic inflation in models with standard kinetic terms, when the initial quantum state is not necessarily the vacuum state. The presence of initial perturbations enhances the trispectrum amplitude for configuration in which one of the momenta, say k(3), is much smaller than the others, k(3) << k(1,2,4). For those squeezed con figurations the trispectrum acquires the so-called local form, with a scale dependent amplitude that can get values of order epsilon(k(1)/k(3))(2). This amplitude could be larger than the prediction of the so-called Maldacena consistency relation by a factor as large as 10(6), and could reach the sensitivity of forthcoming observations, even for single-field inflationary models.
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