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Primordial fluctuations in extended Liouville theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-03-12 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Liouville gravity can be used to precisely model features of 3+1 dimensional cosmology in a simplified 1+1d setting. We study primordial fluctuations in a generally covariant extension of Liouville theory, in the context of single field inflation. The scale invariant spectrum of scalar curvature perturbations is exhibited, and their three-point correlation function is computed in the slow roll approximation. We recover Maldacena's consistency relation for the three-point function, which in this context depends on a global shift symmetry of extended Liouville theory.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2612,
  title  = {Primordial fluctuations in extended Liouville theory},
  author = {Wynton E. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2612},
  year   = {2015}
}

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