Inflation and primordial non-Gaussianities of "generalized Galileons"

X. Gao (1) , D.A. Steer (2)

1 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
2 APC - THEORIE

We set up cosmological perturbation theory and study the cosmological implications of the so-called "generalized Galileon" developed in [6, 7]. This is the most general scalar field theory whose Lagrangian contains derivatives up to second order while keeping second order equations of motion, and contains as sub-cases k-inflation, G-inflation and many other models. We calculate the power spectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation, finding a modification of the usual consistency relation of the tensor-to-scalar ratio in k-inflation or perfect fluid models. Finally we also calculate the bispectrum, which contains no new shapes beyond those of k-inflation.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Théorie [hep-th]

X. Gao, D.A. Steer. Inflation and primordial non-Gaussianities of "generalized Galileons". Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2011, 12, pp.019. ⟨10.1088/1475-7516/2011/12/019⟩. ⟨hal-00716523⟩