Non-Gaussianity of inflationary gravitational waves from the field equation

DOI10.1142/S0218271819500366zbMATH Open1431.83033arXiv1804.01481MaRDI QIDQ5217818FDOQ5217818

Authors: Aniket Agrawal 

Publication date: 26 February 2020

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We demonstrate equivalence of the in-in formalism and Green's function method for calculating the bispectrum of primordial gravitational waves generated by vacuum fluctuations of the metric. The tree-level bispectrum from the field equation, $B_h$, agrees with the results obtained previously using the in-in formalism exactly. Characterising non-Gaussianity of the fluctuations using the ratio $B_h/P_h^2$ in the equilateral configuration, where $P_h$ is the power spectrum of scale-invariant gravitational waves, we show that it is much weaker than in models with spectator gauge fields. We also calculate the tree-level bispectrum of two right-handed and one left-handed gravitational wave using Green's function, reproducing the results from in-in formalism, and show that it can be as large as the bispectrum of three right-handed gravitational waves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01481

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyinflationprimordial gravitational waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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• Non-Gaussianity of quantum fields during inflation
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• Tensor non-gaussianities from non-minimal coupling to the inflaton
• Nonperturbative production of massless scalars during inflation and generation of gravitational waves
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