Signatures of non-gaussianity in the isocurvature modes of primordial
  black hole dark matter
  Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes which may have formed very
early on during the radiation dominated era in the early universe. We present
here a method by which the large scale perturbations in the density of
primordial black holes may be used to place tight constraints on
non-gaussianity if PBHs account for dark matter (DM). The presence of
local-type non-gaussianity is known to have a significant effect on the
abundance of primordial black holes, and modal coupling from the observed CMB
scale modes can significantly alter the number density of PBHs that form within
different regions of the universe, which appear as DM isocurvature modes. Using
the recent \emph{Planck} constraints on isocurvature perturbations, we show
that PBHs are excluded as DM candidates for even very small local-type
non-gaussianity, $|f_{NL}|\approx0.001$ and remarkably the constraint on
$g_{NL}$ is almost as strong. Even small non-gaussianity is excluded if DM is
composed of PBHs. If local non-Gaussianity is ever detected on CMB scales, the
constraints on the fraction of the universe collapsing into PBHs (which are
massive enough to have not yet evaporated) will become much tighter.
