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The quantum fluctuations of a test scalar field on superhorizon scale in de Sitter spacetime can be described by an effective one-dimensional stochastic theory corresponding to a particular class of nonequilibrium dynamical systems known as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-28 G. Moreau , J. Serreau

We derive covariant expressions for the one loop vacuum polarization induced by a charged scalar on de Sitter background. Two forms are employed: one in which two covariant derivatives act on de Sitter invariant basis tensors multiplied by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-14 Katie E. Leonard , T. Prokopec , R. P. Woodard

To resolve infrared problems with the de~Sitter invariant vacuum, we argue that the history of the de~Sitter phase is crucial. We illustrate how either (1)~the diagonalization of the Hamiltonian for long-wavelength modes or (2)~an explicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 A. D. Dolgov , M. B. Einhorn , V. I. Zakharov

We develop a formalism for computing the scattering amplitudes in maximally symmetric de Sitter spacetime with compact spatial dimensions. We describe quantum states by using the representation theory of de Sitter symmetry group and link…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

The dissertation deals with noncommutative field theories, namely field theories compatible with the existence of a minimal (quantum gravity) length scale. Two families of quantum spacetime are considered. One is characterized by semisimple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-19 Timothé Poulain

In the approach of the effective field theory of modified gravity, we derive the second-order action and the equation of motion for tensor perturbations on the flat isotropic cosmological background. This analysis accommodates a wide range…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

We analyze infrared divergences arising in calculations involving light and massless fields in de Sitter space. We show that these arise from an incorrect treatment of the constant mode of the field, and show that a correct quantization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Arvind Rajaraman

We calculate the two-loop corrections in primordial power spectrum in models of single field inflation incorporating an intermediate USR phase employed for PBHs formation. Among the total eleven one-particle irreducible Feynman diagrams, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-16 Hassan Firouzjahi

Using the Schwinger-Keldysh-formalism, reformulated in arXiv:2108.01695 as an effective field theory in Euclidean anti-de Sitter, we evaluate the one-loop cosmological four-point function of a conformally coupled interacting scalar field in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 T. Heckelbacher , I. Sachs , E. Skvortsov , P. Vanhove

In modified gravity, the one-loop matter power spectrum exhibits an ultraviolet divergence as shown in the framework of the degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor theory. To address this problem, we extend the effective field theory of large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-04 Shin'ichi Hirano , Tomohiro Fujita

In this paper, the two-point function of linearized gravitons on de Sitter (dS) space is presented. Technically, respecting the dS ambient space notation, the field equation is given by the coordinate-independent Casimir operators of the de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-16 Hamed Pejhan , Surena Rahbardehghan

A recent proposal for gauge-invariant observables in inflation [R. Brunetti et al., JHEP 1608 (2016) 032] is examined. We give a generalisation of their construction to general background spacetimes. In flat space, we calculate one-loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-02 Markus B. Fröb

Understanding the loop corrections to cosmological observables is of paramount importance for having control on the quantum consistency of a theory in an expanding universe as well as for phenomenological reasons. In the present work, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-21 Paolo Benincasa , Giacomo Brunello , Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Francisco Vazão

In flat space, the scattering amplitudes of certain scalar effective field theories exhibit enhanced soft limits due to the presence of hidden symmetries. In this paper, we show that this phenomenon extends to wavefunction coefficients in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-15 Connor Armstrong , Arthur Lipstein , Jiajie Mei

In this work we analytically obtain the quasinormal spectrum for the gravitational perturbation on a higher-dimensional generalization of the Nariai spacetime that is comprised of the direct product of the two-dimensional de Sitter space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-22 Carlos Batista , Joás Venâncio

We present some classical and weighted Poincar\'e inequalities for some one-dimensional probability measures. This work is the one-dimensional counterpart of a recent study achieved by the authors for a class of spherically symmetric…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-24 Michel Bonnefont , Aldéric Joulin , Yutao Ma

The discrete symmetries of the Dirac field on the de Sitter manifold are studied taking into account that this has two portions that can play the role of physical space-times, namely the expanding and a collapsing universes. The proper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 Ion I. Cotaescu , Ion Cotaescu

We consider the quantum mechanical description of the de Sitter static patch in three-dimensional general relativity. We consider a Lorentzian path integral that conjecturally computes the Fourier transform of the spectrum of the static…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-13 Joydeep Chakravarty , Alexander Maloney , Keivan Namjou , Simon F. Ross

We study nonlinear gravitational perturbations of vacuum Einstein equations, with $\Lambda<0$ in $(n+2)$ dimensions, with $n>2$, generalizing previous studies for $n=2$. We follow the formalism by Ishibashi, Kodama and Seto to decompose the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Dhanya S. Menon , Vardarajan Suneeta

We calculate the one-loop contributions to the polarization operator for scalar quantum electrodynamics in different external electromagnetic and gravitational fields. In the case of gravity, de-Sitter space and its different patches were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Fedor K. Popov