We revisit the question of how to calculate correlations of the curvature perturbation, , using the formalism when one cannot employ a truncated Taylor expansion of . This problem arises when one uses lattice simulations to probe the effects of isocurvature modes on models of reheating. Working in real space, we use an expansion in the cross-correlation between fields at different positions, and present simple expressions for observables such as the power spectrum and the reduced bispectrum, . These take the same form as those of the usual expressions, but with the derivatives of replaced by non-perturbative coefficients. We test the validity of this expansion and argue that our expressions are particularly well suited for use with simulations.

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