Large Primordial Trispectra in General Single Field Inflation

We compute the large scalar four-point correlation functions in general single field inflation models, where the inflaton Lagrangian is an arbitrary function of the inflaton and its first derivative. We find that the leading order trispectra have four different shapes determined by three parameters....

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Main Authors: Chen, Xingang, Hu, Bin, Huang, Min-xin, Shiu, Gary, Wang, Yi
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49507