General formula for the running of local fNL

Christian T. Byrnes, Jinn Ouk Gong

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Abstract

We compute the scale dependence of fNL for models of multi-field inflation, allowing for an arbitrary field space metric. We show that, in addition to multi-field effects and self-interactions, the curved field space metric provides another source of scale dependence, which arises from the field-space Riemann curvature tensor and its derivatives. The scale dependence may be detectable within the near future if the amplitude of fNL is not too far from the current observational bounds.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)718-721
Number of pages4
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume718
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Jan 2013

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