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Inflationary trispectrum from graviton exchange
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posted on 2023-06-07, 20:26 authored by David SeeryDavid Seery, Martin S Sloth, Filippo VernizziWe compute the connected four-point correlation function of the primordial curvature perturbation generated during inflation with standard kinetic terms, where the correlation is established via exchange of a graviton between two pairs of scalar fluctuations. Any such correlation yields a contribution to the scalar trispectrum of the order of the tensor to scalar ratio r. This contribution is numerically one order of magnitude larger than the one previously calculated on the basis of scalar perturbations interacting at a point and satisfies a simple relation in the limit where the momentum of the graviton which is exchanged becomes much smaller than the external momenta. We conclude that the total non-linearity parameter generated by single-field models of slow-roll inflation is at maximum |tNL| ~ r.
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsISSN
1475-7516External DOI
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3Volume
2009Page range
018Pages
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