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Primordial fluctuations and non-gaussianities in multifield Dirac-Born-Infeld inflation

  • Astroparticule and Cosmol APC
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics

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Abstract

We study Dirac-Born-Infeld inflation models with multiple scalar fields. We show that the adiabatic and entropy modes propagate with a common effective sound speed and are thus amplified at the sound horizon crossing. In the small sound speed limit, we find that the amplitude of the entropy modes is much higher than that of the adiabatic modes. We show that this could strongly affect the observable curvature power spectrum as well as the amplitude of non-Gaussianities, although their shape remains as in the single-field Dirac-Born-Infeld case.

Original languageEnglish
Article number061301
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume101
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Aug 2008
Externally publishedYes

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