Consistency relations in multi-field inflation
High Energy Physics - Theory
2018-02-21 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study the consequences of spatial coordinate transformation in multi-field inflation. Among the spontaneously broken de Sitter isometries, only dilatation in the comoving gauge preserves the form of the metric and thus results in quantum-protected Slavnov-Taylor identities. We derive the corresponding consistency relations between correlation functions of cosmological perturbations in two different ways, by the connected and one-particle-irreducible Green's functions. The lowest-order consistency relations are explicitly given, and we find that even in multi-field inflation the consistency relations in the soft limit are independent of the detail of the matter sector.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1707.08282,
title = {Consistency relations in multi-field inflation},
author = {Jinn-Ouk Gong and Min-Seok Seo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.08282},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
24 pages, version to appear in JCAP