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In [1], a most general higher curvature non-local gravity action was derived that admits a particular R2-like inflationary solution predicting the spectral index of primordial scalar perturbations \( {n}_s(N)\approx 1-\frac{1}{2} \), where N is the number of e-folds before the end of inflation, N ≫ 1, any value of the tensor-to-scalar ratio r(N) < 0.036 and the tensor tilt nt(N) violating the r = –8nt condition. In this paper, we compute scalar primordial non-Gaussianities (PNGs) in this theory and effectively demonstrate that higher curvature non-local terms lead to reduced bispectrum fNL (k1, k2, k3) mimicking several classes of scalar field models of inflation known in the literature. We obtain |fNL| ~ O(1 – 10) in the equilateral, orthogonal, and squeezed limits and the running of these PNGs measured by the quantity \( \left|\frac{d\ln {f}_{\textrm{NL}}}{d\ln k}\right|\lesssim 1 \). Such PNGs are sufficiently large to be measurable by future CMB and Large Scale Structure observations, thus providing a possibility to probe the nature of quantum gravity. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the R2-like inflation in non-local modification of gravity brings non-trivial predictions which go beyond the current status of effective field theories (EFTs) of single field, quasi-single field and multiple field inflation. A distinguishable feature of non-local R2-like inflation compared to local EFTs is that we can have running of PNGs at least an order of magnitude higher. In summary, through our generalized non-local R2-like inflation, we obtain a robust geometric framework of inflation that can explain any detection of observable quantities related to scalar PNGs.
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AK is supported by FCT Portugal investigator project IF/01607/2015. This research work was supported by grants UID/MAT/00212/2019, COST Action CA15117 (CANTATA). KSK acknowledges the support from JSPS and KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. JP20F20320 and No. JP21H00069. KSK would like to thank the Royal Society for the Newton International Fellowship. AAS was supported by the RSF grant 21-12-00130. We would like to thank L. Buoninfante, A. De Felice, T. Noumi, A. Tokareva, T. Suyama and M. Yamaguchi for very useful discussions.
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Koshelev, A.S., Kumar, K.S. & Starobinsky, A.A. Non-Gaussianities in generalized non-local R2-like inflation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 94 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2023)094
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