%0 Journal Article %1 Mulryne2009 %A Mulryne, David J. %A Seery, David %A Wesley, Daniel %D 2009 %K inflation non-gaussian %T Moment transport equations for non-Gaussianity %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2256 %X We present a novel method for calculating the primordial non-Gaussianity produced by super-horizon evolution during inflation. Our method evolves the distribution of coarse-grained inflationary field values using a transport equation. We present simple evolution equations for the moments of this distribution, such as the variance and skewness. This method possesses some advantages over existing techniques. Among them, it cleanly separates multiple sources of primordial non-Gaussianity, and is computationally efficient when compared with popular alternatives, such as the "delta N" framework. We adduce numerical calculations demonstrating that our new method offers good agreement with those already in the literature. We focus on two fields and the fNL parameter, but we expect our method will generalize to multiple scalar fields and to moments of arbitrarily high order. We present our expressions in a field-space covariant form which we postulate to be valid for any number of fields.

@article{Mulryne2009, abstract = { We present a novel method for calculating the primordial non-Gaussianity produced by super-horizon evolution during inflation. Our method evolves the distribution of coarse-grained inflationary field values using a transport equation. We present simple evolution equations for the moments of this distribution, such as the variance and skewness. This method possesses some advantages over existing techniques. Among them, it cleanly separates multiple sources of primordial non-Gaussianity, and is computationally efficient when compared with popular alternatives, such as the "delta N" framework. We adduce numerical calculations demonstrating that our new method offers good agreement with those already in the literature. We focus on two fields and the fNL parameter, but we expect our method will generalize to multiple scalar fields and to moments of arbitrarily high order. We present our expressions in a field-space covariant form which we postulate to be valid for any number of fields. }, added-at = {2010-08-23T11:18:20.000+0200}, author = {Mulryne, David J. and Seery, David and Wesley, Daniel}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/295627855b31dd99cf0c660856dd9ea41/jpschaar}, description = {Moment transport equations for non-Gaussianity}, interhash = {ba031b3ce1237457009a3df68b77a0df}, intrahash = {95627855b31dd99cf0c660856dd9ea41}, keywords = {inflation non-gaussian}, note = {cite arxiv:0909.2256 Comment: 24 pages, 4 colour figures; uses iopart.cls. v2: Erroneous statements about delta N method in Sec. 2 removed. Correction to gauge transformation in Eq. (12) brings numerical results of Sec. 4 into better agreement with the delta N formula. Conclusions remain the same. v3: minor changes}, timestamp = {2010-08-23T11:18:20.000+0200}, title = {Moment transport equations for non-Gaussianity}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2256}, year = 2009 }