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Probing inflation with precision bispectra

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Authors

Clarke, P 
Shellard, EPS 

Abstract

Calculating the primordial bispectrum predicted by a model of inflation and comparing it to what we see in the sky is very computationally intensive, necessitating layers of approximations and limiting the models which can be constrained. Exploiting the inherent separability of the tree level in-in formalism using expansions in separable basis functions provides a means by which to obviate some of these difficulties. Here, we develop this approach further into a practical and efficient numerical methodology which can be applied to a much wider and more complicated range of bispectrum phenomenology, making an important step forward towards observational pipelines which can directly confront specific models of inflation. We describe a simple augmented Legendre polynomial basis and its advantages, then test the method on single-field inflation models with non-trivial phenomenology, showing that our calculation of these coefficients is fast and accurate to high orders.

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Keywords

inflation, non-gaussianity

Journal Title

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Journal ISSN

1475-7516
1475-7516

Volume Title

2021

Publisher

IOP Publishing
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/J005673/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/M007065/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/P000673/1)
STFC (ST/T00049X/1)
STFC (ST/M007073/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/R00689X/1)
STFC (ST/T001550/1)
STFC (ST/V002635/1)