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Non-Gaussianity from Broken Symmetries

Edward W. Kolb, Antonio Riotto, Alberto Vallinotto

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0511198

Abstract

Recently we studied inflation models in which the inflaton potential is characterized by an underlying approximate global symmetry. In the first work we pointed out that in such a model curvature perturbations are generated after the end of the slow-roll phase of inflation. In this work we develop further the observational implications of the model and compute the degree of non-Gaussianity predicted in the scenario. We find that the corresponding nonlinearity parameter, fNL, can be as large as 102.

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