Primordial Fluctuations and Non-Gaussianities in Multifield Dirac-Born-Infeld Inflation

David Langlois, Sébastien Renaux-Petel, Danièle A. Steer, and Takahiro Tanaka
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 061301 – Published 7 August 2008

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.

  • Received 9 May 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.061301

©2008 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

David Langlois1, Sébastien Renaux-Petel1, Danièle A. Steer1,2, and Takahiro Tanaka3

  • 1APC, UMR 7164, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet,75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
  • 2CERN Physics Department, Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
  • 3Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

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Vol. 101, Iss. 6 — 8 August 2008

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