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Cosmological correlators encode invaluable information about the wavefunction of the primordial universe. In this letter we present a duality between correlators and wavefunction coefficients that is valid to all orders in the loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 David Stefanyszyn , Xi Tong , Yuhang Zhu

In this work, we investigate how cosmological correlators can be reconstructed by applying the momentum-space dispersion formula to their discontinuities, treating them as functions of momentum variables associated with the corresponding de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Shibam Das , Debanjan Karan , Babli Khatun , Nilay Kundu

Despite its great successes in accounting for the current observations, the so called `standard' model of cosmology faces a number of fundamental unresolved questions. Paramount among these are those relating to the nature of the origin of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-29 Martin Bojowald , Reza Tavakol

We reconsider perturbative unitarity in quantum field theory and upgrade several arguments and results. The minimum assumptions that lead to the largest time equation, the cutting equations and the unitarity equation are identified. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-27 Damiano Anselmi

We present a new analytic approach to describe large scale structure formation in the mildly non-linear regime. The central object of the method is the time-dependent probability distribution function generating correlators of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-09 Diego Blas , Mathias Garny , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Sergey Sibiryakov

Probabilities for observations in cosmology are conditioned both on the universe's quantum state and on local data specifying the observational situation. We show the quantum state defines a measure for prediction through such conditional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 James Hartle , Thomas Hertog

We study the time evolution of a wave function for the spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe governed by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in both analytical and numerical methods. We consider a Brown-Kuchar dust as a matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-14 Hideki Maeda

Using cosmological dressing rules, we uplift flat-space unitarity cuts to discontinuity relations for dS/EAdS observables. In this representation, Cutkosky delta functions map directly to "Disc" operations in the exchanged energy variable.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-15 Arhum Ansari , Sachin Jain , Deep Mazumdar

Analytical computations in relativistic cosmology can be split into two sets: time evolution relating the initial conditions to the observer's light-cone and light propagation to obtain observables. Cosmological perturbation theory in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-18 Ermis Mitsou , Giuseppe Fanizza , Nastassia Grimm , Jaiyul Yoo

We show that the evolution of interacting massive particles in the de Sitter bulk can be understood at leading order as a series of resonant decay and production events. From this perspective, we classify the cosmological collider signals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-11 Xi Tong , Yi Wang , Yuhang Zhu

By considering (non-relativistic) quantum mechanics as it is done in practice in particular in condensed-matter physics, it is argued that a deterministic, unitary time evolution within a chosen Hilbert space always has a limited scope,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Barbara Drossel

In this contribution we address the implications of the Bekenstein Criterion in the branch-cut cosmology. The impossibility of packaging energy and entropy according to the Bekenstein Criterion in a finite size makes the transition phase of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-05 José A. de Freitas Pacheco , César A. Zen Vasconcellos , Peter O. Hess , Dimiter Hadjimichef , Benno Bodmann

One of the main interest in quantum cosmology is to determine boundary conditions for the wave function of the universe which can predict observational data of our universe. For this purpose, we solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-23 Hiroshi Suenobu , Yasusada Nambu

The theory of cosmological perturbations has become a cornerstone of modern quantitative cosmology since it is the framework which provides the link between the models of the very early Universe such as the inflationary Universe scenario…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Robert H. Brandenberger

Fractional cosmology modifies the standard derivative to Caputo's fractional derivative of order $\mu$, generating changes in General Relativity. Friedmann equations are modified, and the evolution of the species densities depends on $\mu$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-26 Miguel A. García-Aspeitia , Guillermo Fernandez-Anaya , A. Hernández-Almada , Genly Leon , Juan Magaña

An interpretation and re-formulation of modern physics which removes the presumption of the space-time continuum, and bases physical theory on a small number of rational and empirical principles. After briefly describing the philosophical…

General Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 Charles Francis

A conserved cosmological perturbation is associated with each quantity whose local evolution is determined entirely by the local expansion of the Universe. It may be defined as the appropriately normalised perturbation of the quantity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David H Lyth , David Wands

We propose a new approach for multiverse analysis based on computational complexity, which leads to a new family of "computational" measure factors. By defining a cosmology as a space-time containing a vacuum with specified properties (for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Frederik Denef , Michael R. Douglas , Brian Greene , Claire Zukowski

Without invoking a perturbative expansion, we define the cosmological curvature perturbation, and consider its behaviour assuming that the universe is smooth over a sufficiently large comoving scale. The equations are simple, resembling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 David H. Lyth , Karim A. Malik , Misao Sasaki

A type of mechanics will be presented that possesses some distinctive properties. On the one hand, its physical description & rules of operation are readily comprehensible & intuitively clear. On the other, it fully satisfies all observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Eric Tesse