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Numerical evaluation of the tensor bispectrum in two field inflation

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Published 19 July 2017 © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab
, , Citation Rathul Nath Raveendran and L. Sriramkumar JCAP07(2017)035 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/07/035

1475-7516/2017/07/035

Abstract

We evaluate the dimensionless non-Gaussianity parameter hNL, that characterizes the amplitude of the tensor bispectrum, numerically for a class of two field inflationary models such as double inflation, hybrid inflation and aligned natural inflation. We compare the numerical results with the slow roll results which can be obtained analytically. In the context of double inflation, we also investigate the effects on hNL due to curved trajectories in the field space. We explicitly examine the validity of the consistency relation governing the tensor bispectrum in the squeezed limit. Lastly, we discuss the contribution to hNL due to the epoch of preheating in two field models.

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