Cluster Bootstrap for Cosmological Correlators
Abstract
We show that cosmological wavefunction coefficients associated with -site chain and loop graphs for a cubic scalar theory in de Sitter spacetime have symbol alphabets given by subsets of and 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 expansion. We use this information as bootstrap input to show that de Sitter symbols for 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