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Correlators from Amplitubes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-07-15 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Recently, the wavefunction coefficients for conformally coupled scalars in an FRW cosmology have been presented as a sum over amplitude-like functions known as {\it amplitubes}. In this work we extend this analysis to full {\it correlation functions}. Remarkably, the amplitube expansion of the correlator exhibits many vanishing contributions that are otherwise present in the expansion of the wavefunction. Moreover, while the wavefunction coefficients suffer from relative minus signs between terms, the surviving terms in correlation function do not. These observations point to a hidden simplicity in the structure of the correlation function compared to that of the wavefunction coefficient.

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@article{arxiv.2507.07199,
  title  = {Correlators from Amplitubes},
  author = {Ross Glew},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.07199},
  year   = {2025}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure

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