2013Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics 2013(12), 010 (2013). doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2013/12/010We look for potential observational degeneracies between canonical and non-canonical models of inflation of a single field phi. Non-canonical inflationary models are characterized by higher than linear powers of the standard kinetic term X in the effective Lagrangian p(X,phi) and arise for instance in the context of the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action in string theory. An on-shell transformation is introduced that transforms non-canonical inflationary theories to theories with a canonical kinetic term. The 2-point function observables of the original non-canonical theory and its canonical transform are found to match in the case of DBI inflation.Published by IOP, London10.3204/DESY-2013-01485en2013Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg10.1088/1475-7516/2013/12/010Reportpages 010530Relations between canonical and non-canonical inflationGwyn, RhiannonRummel, MarkusWestphal, Alexander0000-0003-1578-6539Deutsches Elektronen-SynchrotronDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron