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We study the dynamics of light quantum scalar fields in de Sitter space on superhorizon scales. We compute the self-energy of an O(N) symmetric theory at next-to-leading order in a 1/N expansion in the regime of superhorizon momenta, and we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 Florian Gautier , Julien Serreau

We use the spectral representation of the stochastic Starobinsky-Yokoyama approach to compute correlation functions in de Sitter space for a scalar field with a symmetric or asymmetric double-well potential. The terms in the spectral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-26 Tommi Markkanen , Arttu Rajantie

We investigate when effective theories of a scalar field on (quasi-)de Sitter background break down through the stochastic formalism. We derive the Fokker-Planck equation leaving the second order time derivative of the scalar field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-10 Rio Saitou

We consider light scalar fields during inflation and show how the stochastic spectral expansion method can be used to calculate two-point correlation functions of an arbitrary local function of the field in de Sitter space. In particular,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-02 Tommi Markkanen , Arttu Rajantie , Stephen Stopyra , Tommi Tenkanen

A technique to build perturbative series for the spectator field's correlation functions in de Sitter space through the Fokker-Planck equation is proposed. We derive from the first-order differential equation the iterative integral relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-19 Alexander Kamenshchik , Polina Petriakova

We investigate scalar field theories in de Sitter space by means of nonperturbative renormalization group techniques. We compute the functional flow equation for the effective potential of O(N) theories in the local potential approximation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Maxime Guilleux , Julien Serreau

We study the quantum theory of an O(N) scalar field on de Sitter geometry at leading order in a nonperturbative 1/N-expansion. This resums the infinite series of so-called superdaisy loop diagrams. We obtain the de Sitter symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Julien Serreau

We consider a theory of $N$ self-interacting quantum scalar fields with quartic $O(N)$-symmetric potential, with a coupling constant $\lambda$, in a generic curved spacetime. We analyze the renormalization process of the Semiclassical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-03 Diana L. López Nacir , Julián Rovner

We consider a massive scalar field with quartic self-interaction $\lambda/4!\,\phi^4$ in de~Sitter spacetime and present a diagrammatic expansion that describes the field as driven by stochastic noise. This is compared with the Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-25 Bjorn Garbrecht , Florian Gautier , Gerasimos Rigopoulos , Yi Zhu

We introduce a second-order stochastic effective theory for light scalar fields in de Sitter spacetime, extending the validity of the stochastic approach beyond the massless limit and demonstrating how it can be used to compute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Archie Cable , Arttu Rajantie

The stochastic effective theory approach, often called stochastic inflation, is widely used in cosmology to describe scalar field dynamics during inflation. The existing formulations are, however, more qualitative than quantitative because…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-29 Archie Cable , Arttu Rajantie

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 consider an $O(N)$ scalar field model with quartic interaction in $d$-dimensional Euclidean de Sitter space. In order to avoid the problems of the standard perturbative calculations for light and massless fields, we generalize to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-22 Diana López Nacir , Francisco D. Mazzitelli , Leonardo G. Trombetta

In the framework of Soft de Sitter Effective Theory (SdSET), the Fokker-Planck equation for the late-time dynamics of the massless minimally coupled scalar field and its extension to the Kramers-Moyal equation are obtained from operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Martin Beneke , Patrick Hager , Andrea F. Sanfilippo

We investigate infrared logarithms in de Sitter space from holographic perspective. We employ a gravitational Fokker-Planck equation to investigate the time evolution of the de Sitter entropy $S=\pi/(G_N H^2)$, where $H$ is the Hubble…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-30 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

We present the expressions of the three- and four-point correlation functions of a self interacting light scalar field in a de Sitter spacetime at tree order respectively for a cubic and a quartic potential. Exact expressions are derived…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Francis Bernardeau , Tristan Brunier , Jean-Philippe Uzan

New spherical scalar modes on the expanding part of Sitter spacetime, eigenfunctions of a conserved Hamiltonian-like operator are found by solving the Klein-Gordon equation in the appropriate coordinate chart, with the help of a time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-24 Gabriel Pascu

We discuss the effective infrared theory governing a light scalar's long wavelength dynamics in de Sitter spacetime. We show how the separation of scales around the physical curvature radius $k/a \sim H$ can be performed consistently with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-10 Ian Moss , Gerasimos Rigopoulos

Previously, Pahlavan, Rouhani and Takook have introduced a novel $N=1$ super-symmetric algebra in de Sitter space-time. This paper is an attempt to build a proper $N=1$ super-symmetric field theory of classical level in the de Sitter space.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-22 M. R. Masouminia

We consider an infrared truncated massive minimally coupled scalar field with an asymmetric self-interaction $\frac{m^2}{2}\varphi^2\!+\!\frac{\lambda\varphi^4}{4!}\!+\!\frac{\beta\varphi^3}{3!}(\lambda\!>\!0)$ during a cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 G. Karakaya
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