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A radial variable for de Sitter two-point functions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-11-08 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We introduce a "radial" two-point invariant for quantum field theory in de Sitter (dS) analogous to the radial coordinate used in conformal field theory. We show that the two-point function of a free massive scalar in the Bunch-Davies vacuum has an exponentially convergent series expansion in this variable with positive coefficients only. Assuming a convergent K\"all\'en-Lehmann decomposition, this result is then generalized to the two-point function of any scalar operator non-perturbatively. A corollary of this result is that, starting from two-point functions on the sphere, an analytic continuation to an extended complex domain is admissible. dS two-point configurations live inside or on the boundary of this domain, and all the paths traced by Wick rotations between dS and the sphere or between dS and Euclidean Anti-de Sitter are also contained within this domain.

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@article{arxiv.2310.15944,
  title  = {A radial variable for de Sitter two-point functions},
  author = {Manuel Loparco and Jiaxin Qiao and Zimo Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.15944},
  year   = {2023}
}

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27+19 pages, 8 figures

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