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Generalised Cluster Adjacency for Cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-03-11 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the cluster algebraic properties of wavefunction coefficients for massless scalar theories in de Sitter cosmology. We show that the symbol of the wavefunction coefficient of the nn-site path graph PnP_n obeys a generalisation of cluster adjacency, where all letters in a given word belong to the same cluster of an A2n3A_{2n-3} algebra, with certain additional constraints on the order of the letters. We call this property the ordered single cluster condition, and provide its physical interpretation. This condition is stronger than the usual cluster adjacency obeyed by neighbouring letters, and imposes stronger constraints for the symbol bootstrap. We also show how any tree graph satisfies a cluster-like structure in terms of tubes and tubings on the underlying graph, which allows for a similar bootstrap approach.

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@article{arxiv.2603.09965,
  title  = {Generalised Cluster Adjacency for Cosmology},
  author = {Mattia Capuano and Livia Ferro and Tomasz Lukowski and Alessandro Palazio and Yao-Qi Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.09965},
  year   = {2026}
}

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17 pages

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