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Xingang Chen

2010.2.8Advances in Astronomy

DOI: 10.1155/2010/638979

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This is a pedagogical review on primordial non-Gaussianities from inflation models, and formalisms and techniques that are used to compute such quantities.

Abstract

This is a pedagogical review on primordial non-Gaussianities from inflation models. We introduce formalisms and techniques that are used to compute such quantities. We review different mechanisms which can generate observable large non-Gaussianities during inflation, and distinctive signatures they leave on the non-Gaussian profiles. They are potentially powerful probes to the dynamics of inflation. We also provide a nontechnical and qualitative summary of the main results and underlying physics.

Citation format

CHEN, Xingang. Primordial non-gaussianities from inflation models [preprint]. arXiv, 2010. arXiv:1002.1416.