13–18 Sept 2010
Lecce, Università del Salento
Europe/Rome timezone
The 4th UniverseNet Annual School - Lecce, 13-18 September 2010

Dr. MULRYNE, David (Imperial College London): Moment transport equations for Non-Gaussianity in models with many fields

17 Sept 2010, 17:00
15m
Lecce, Università del Salento

Lecce, Università del Salento

Via Michele De Pietro, 12 I-73100 Lecce (LE)

Description

I will discuss inflationary models with large numbers of active fields, and numerical methods for calculating the non-Gaussianity produced in such models. In particular, I will discuss the method of `moment transport' which directly evolves the moments of the probability distribution for the curvature perturbation on super-horizon scales.
ArXiv number (if any) 0909.2256

Presentation materials