Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/04/039
Keywords
inflation; initial conditions and eternal universe; non-gaussianity
Funding
- National Science Foundation [PHY-0969020, PHY-0455649]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [0969020] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We investigate possible signatures of a pre-inflationary anisotropic phase in two-point and three-point correlation functions of the curvature perturbation for high-momentum modes which exit the horizon well after isotropization. In this momentum regime, the early time dynamics admits a WKB description and the late time dynamics can be described in terms of a non-Bunch Davies vacuum state which encodes the information of initial anisotropy in the background spacetime. We compute the bi-spectrum for curvature perturbation in a canonical single-field action with and without higher derivative operators. We show that the bi-spectrum at late times, in either case, is enhanced for a flattened triangle configuration as well as a squeezed triangle configuration and compute the corresponding f(NL) parameters. The angular dependence and the particular momentum dependence of the f(NL) parameter appear as distinctive features of background anisotropy at early times.
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