Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2012/iii/paper-57/3/c/solution

Put and in the squeezed bispectrum configuration. Then and the three symmetric combinations in the supplied expression have limits
The first two terms inside the bracket cancel, leaving . The full bracket is therefore , and
The is kept in the normalization of used by the paper; it should not be introduced a second time by changing the primordial bispectrum convention.
Momentum conservation makes the three vectors close into a triangle. As , the two short-wavelength vectors approach equal magnitude and opposite direction, producing a thin, nearly collapsed triangle. In real space the mode varies slowly over a region containing many short wavelengths, so it modulates their local statistics. For a single adiabatic inflationary clock this is a local spatial dilation, the basis of the single-field inflation squeezed-limit consistency relation. If is the Hubble-flow convention , the scalar spectral index in Hubble slow-roll parameters gives to first order. This identification must not be made with the potential slow-roll without converting conventions.

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