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}
}
Comments
10 pages, 7 figures, acknoledgments added