Probing inflation with precision bispectra

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/08/002MaRDI QIDQ5070218zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philip L. Clarke, E. P. S. Shellard

Publication date 11 April 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08546

zbMATH Keywords

inflationnon-Gaussianity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Set functions and measures and integrals in infinite-dimensional spaces (Wiener measure, Gaussian measure, etc.) (28C20) Series expansions (e.g., Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series) (41A58) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) General theory of numerical methods in complex analysis (potential theory, etc.) (65E05) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-10) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: Calculating the primordial bispectrum predicted by a model of inflation and comparing it to what we see in the sky is very computationally intensive, necessitating layers of approximations and limiting the models which can be constrained. Exploiting the inherent separability of the tree level in-in formalism using expansions in separable basis functions provides a means by which to obviate some of these difficulties. Here, we develop this approach further into a practical and efficient numerical methodology which can be applied to a much wider and more complicated range of bispectrum phenomenology, making an important step forward towards observational pipelines which can directly confront specific models of inflation. We describe a simple augmented Legendre polynomial basis and its advantages, then test the method on single-field inflation models with non-trivial phenomenology, showing that our calculation of these coefficients is fast and accurate to high orders.

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• CppTransport
• BINGO
• PyTransport

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