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Cluster Bootstrap for Cosmological Correlators

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-03-10 v1

Abstract

We show that cosmological wavefunction coefficients associated with nn-site chain and loop graphs for a cubic scalar theory in de Sitter spacetime have symbol alphabets given by subsets of A2n2A_{2n{-}2} and B2n1B_{2n{-}1} cluster variables, respectively, and satisfy the associated cluster adjacency properties. The key step in proving this is identifying a precise connection between graph "tubings" that appear in the kinematic flow equation and polygon "triangulations" that encode the combinatorics of cluster compatibility. Our results imply that cosmological wavefunction coefficients in a general power-law FRW cosmology satisfy cluster adjacency to all orders in the ϵ\epsilon expansion. We use this information as bootstrap input to show that de Sitter symbols for n4n \leq 4 are uniquely determined by simple physical constraints.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2603.08670,
  title  = {Cluster Bootstrap for Cosmological Correlators},
  author = {Shruti Paranjape and Marcos Skowronek and Marcus Spradlin and Anastasia Volovich and He-Chen Weng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08670},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

20 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables

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