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We show that the correlation functions of any single-field cosmological model with constant growing-modes are constrained by an infinite number of novel consistency relations, which relate (N+1)-point correlation functions with a…

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As statements regarding the soft limit of cosmological correlation functions, consistency relations are known to exist in any flat FRW universe. In this letter we explore the possibility of finding such relations in a spatially closed…

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Soft theorems for the scattering of low energy photons and gravitons and cosmological consistency conditions on the squeezed-limit correlation functions are both understood to be consequences of invariance under large gauge transformations.…

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We study soft limits of correlation functions for the density and velocity fields in the theory of structure formation. First, we re-derive the (resummed) consistency conditions at unequal times using the eikonal approximation. These are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-25 Ido Ben-Dayan , Thomas Konstandin , Rafael A. Porto , Laura Sagunski

In cosmology, long-wavelength modes are related to large-gauge transformations (LGT), i.e. changes of coordinates that modify the physical geometry of the cosmological patch. These LGTs stand as bona-fide symmetries of cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Jibril Ben Achour , Etera Livine , Vincent Vennin

We study the structure of the flat space wavefunctional in scalar field theories with nonlinearly realized symmetries. These symmetries imply soft theorems that are satisfied by wavefunction coefficients in the limit where one of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 Noah Bittermann , Austin Joyce

The Bipolar Spherical Harmonics (BipoSH) form a natural basis to study the CMB two point correlation function in a non-statistically isotropic (non-SI) universe. The coefficients of expansion in this basis are a generalisation of the well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-30 Moumita Aich , Aditya Rotti , Tarun Souradeep

Cosmological soft theorems (or consistency relations) provide a powerful probe for the physics of inflation. These relations rely on minimal assumptions and hold very generally. Consequently, any violation of these relations would rule out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Farman Ullah

Two-point correlation functions are ubiquitous tools of modern cosmology, appearing in disparate topics ranging from cosmological inflation to late-time astrophysics. When the background spacetime is maximally symmetric, invariance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-22 Oton H. Marcori , Thiago S. Pereira

Correlation functions of adiabatic modes in cosmology are constrained by an infinite number of consistency relations, which relate N+1-point correlation functions with a soft-momentum scalar or tensor mode to a symmetry transformation on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Lasha Berezhiani , Justin Khoury

The ability to measure characteristics of source shapes using non-identical particle correlations is discussed. Both strong-interaction induced and Coulomb induced correlations are shown to provide sensitivity to source shapes. By…

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Two-point correlation functions of cosmic microwave background polarization provide a physically independent probe of the surprising suppression of correlations in the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropies at large angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Amanda Yoho , Simone Aiola , Craig J. Copi , Arthur Kosowsky , Glenn D. Starkman

It is well known that soft singularities of massless amplitudes are significantly simpler than those of massive ones. However, the computation of the soft anomalous dimension (AD) using Wilson-lines correctors is only straightforward in the…

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We derive cosmological soft theorems for solids coupled to gravity. To this end, we first derive all cosmological adiabatic modes for solids, which display the interesting novelty of non-vanishing anisotropic stresses on large scales. Then,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 Enrico Pajer , Sadra Jazayeri , Drian van der Woude

We derive soft theorems for single-clock cosmologies that enjoy a shift symmetry. These so-called consistency conditions arise from a combination of a large diffeomorphism and the internal shift-symmetry and fix the squeezed limit of all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-20 Bernardo Finelli , Garrett Goon , Enrico Pajer , Luca Santoni

There have been thousands of cosmological models for our early universe proposed in the literature, and many of them claimed to be able to give rise to scale-invariant power spectrum as was favored by the observational data. It is thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Jiaming Shi , Zheng Fang , Taotao Qiu

Soft theorems can be recast as Ward identities of asymptotic symmetries. We review such relation for the leading and subleading soft graviton theorems in arbitrary even dimensions. While soft theorems are trivially generalized to dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Stefano Lionetti

We consider the propagation of classical and non-classical light in multi-mode optical waveguides. We focus on the evolution of the few-photon correlation functions, which, much like the light-intensity distribution in such systems, evolve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 Eilon Poem , Yaron Silberberg

The correlated fermionic many-particle system, near infinite scattering length, reveals an underlying Heisenberg symmetry in one dimension, as compared to an $SO(2,1)$ symmetry in two dimensions. This facilitates an exact map from the…

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