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A topological contribution to Bogoliubov coefficient for cosmological particle production

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-06-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Particle production in cosmology is often efficiently computed in terms of Bogoliubov transforms. Restricting to a particular class of dispersion relationships, we identify a map between the number of particles produced in a special kinematic limit and a Stokes phenomena related topology of analytic continuation of the Bogoliubov coefficient functions. Intuitively, this kinematic limit corresponds to the long wavelength limit although a more precise description depends on the nature of the curved spacetime. To identify the topology, we reformulate the usual Bogoliubov computations as a type of SU(1,1) gauged differential equation and utilize a special gauge together with a discrete symmetry that naturally characterizes the dispersion relationship. Using a dark matter model and a nonzero constant spatial curvature model, we estimate how such topological contributions will arise in physical applications.

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@article{arxiv.2408.11452,
  title  = {A topological contribution to Bogoliubov coefficient for cosmological particle production},
  author = {Daniel J. H. Chung and Nidhi Sudhir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11452},
  year   = {2025}
}

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42 pages + appendices and references, 8 figures