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Impact of transforming to conformal Fermi coordinates on quasisingle field non-Gaussianity

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In general relativity predictions for observable quantities can be expressed in a coordinate independent way. Nonetheless it may be inconvenient to do so. Using a particular frame may be the… Click to show full abstract

In general relativity predictions for observable quantities can be expressed in a coordinate independent way. Nonetheless it may be inconvenient to do so. Using a particular frame may be the easiest way to connect theoretical predictions to measurable quantities. For the cosmological curvature bispectrum such frame is described by the Conformal Fermi Coordinates. In single field inflation it was shown that going to this frame cancels the squeezed limit of the density perturbation bispectrum calculated in Global Coordinates. We explore this issue in quasi single field inflation when the curvaton mass and the curvaton-inflaton mixing are small. In this case, the contribution to the bispectrum from the coordinate transformation to Conformal Fermi Coordinates is of the same order as that from the inflaton-curvaton interaction term but does not cancel it.

Keywords: field; conformal fermi; impact transforming; transforming conformal; fermi coordinates

Journal Title: Physical Review D
Year Published: 2020

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