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A Diagrammatic Approach to Scalar Field Correlators during Inflation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-10-21 v2

Abstract

We consider a self-interacting scalar field in a de Sitter background and deal with the associated infrared divergences in a purely diagrammatic way using the in-in formalism. In the particular case of a large N O(N) invariant scalar field theory with quartic self-interactions we recover the result that the connected four-point correlation function, which is a signal of non-Gaussianity, is non-perturbatively enhanced with respect to its tree-level value.

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@article{arxiv.0810.3330,
  title  = {A Diagrammatic Approach to Scalar Field Correlators during Inflation},
  author = {G. Petri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3330},
  year   = {2008}
}

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10 pages, 7 figures, acknoledgments added