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New recursions for tree-level correlators in (Anti) de Sitter space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-12-26 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present for the first time classical multiparticle solutions in Anti de Sitter space (AdS) involving scalars, gluons, and gravitons. They are recursively defined through multiparticle currents which reduce to Berends-Giele currents in the flat space limit. This construction exposes a compact definition of tree-level boundary correlators using a general prescription that removes unphysical boundary contributions. Similarly to the flat space perturbiner, a convenient gauge choice leads to a scalar basis for all degrees of freedom, while the tensor structure is exclusively captured by field theory vertices. This provides a fully automated way to compute AdS boundary correlators to any multiplicity and cosmological wavefunction coefficients after Wick-rotating to de Sitter space.

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@article{arxiv.2209.02709,
  title  = {New recursions for tree-level correlators in (Anti) de Sitter space},
  author = {Connor Armstrong and Humberto Gomez and Renann Lipinski Jusinskas and Arthur Lipstein and Jiajie Mei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.02709},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

9 pages. v2: references added. v3: published version, with fixed typo in equation (37)

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