 Absence of primordial scale-dependent halo bias in single-clock inflation

In an attractor with one adiabatic clock, the leading squeezed primordial bispectrum is the response to a coordinate dilation. Holding a halo's physical mass and smoothing scale fixed cancels this dilation in its abundance response. Thus the consistency-relation term does not generate the physical $k^{-2}$ scale-dependent halo bias from local non-Gaussianity. For example, a top-hat filter of fixed physical radius has coordinate radius $R_c=e^{-{\zeta }_L}{R}_0$, while the short density contrast is ${\delta }_s(\mathbf{x})={\delta }_s^{(0)}(e^{{\zeta }_L}\mathbf{x})$. The substitution $\mathbf{y}=e^{{\zeta }_L}\mathbf{x}$ shows that its normalized average over $|\mathbf{x}|<R_c$ equals the original average over $|\mathbf{y}|<R_0$. Genuine local effects start at two spatial derivatives of the long mode. Non-attractor backgrounds or nonstandard initial states need not satisfy this argument.