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We construct the scalar and graviton propagator in quasi de Sitter space up to first order in the slow roll parameter $\epsilon\equiv -\dot{H}/H^2$. After a rescaling, the propagators are similar to those in de Sitter space with an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Tomas Janssen , Tomislav Prokopec

We employ the superpotential technique for the reconstruction of cosmological models with a non-minimally coupled scalar field evolving on a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background. The key point in this method is that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-08 A. Yu. Kamenshchik , A. Tronconi , G. Venturi , S. Yu. Vernov

We employ scattering amplitudes in curved space to model the dynamics of a light probe particle with mass $m$ orbiting in the background spacetime induced by a heavy gravitational source with mass $M$. Observables are organized as an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Dimitrios Kosmopoulos , Mikhail P. Solon

Vacuum decay in de Sitter space is a process of great physical interest, as it allows to rule out cosmological models in the early and current Universe. Its rate may be described in terms of an instanton in Euclidean space called bounce and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-24 Silvia Vicentini

The de Sitter invariant special relativity is a natural extension of the usual Einstein special relativity. Within this framework a generalization of special relativity (SR) for the de Sitter space-time introduces a new length scale $R$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-28 Daria A. Tretyakova

We obtain the closed form expression for the metric perturbation around de Sitter spacetime generated by a matter source below Hubble scale both in generalized harmonic gauge and in Bondi gauge up to quadrupolar order in the multipolar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-18 Geoffrey Compère , Sk Jahanur Hoque , Emine Şeyma Kutluk

We compute the entanglement entropy for some quantum field theories on de Sitter space. We consider a superhorizon size spherical surface that divides the spatial slice into two regions, with the field theory in the standard vacuum state.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Juan Maldacena , Guilherme L. Pimentel

We study the decoherence effect of quantum superposition in de Sitter (dS) spacetime due to the presence of the cosmological horizon. Using the algebraic approach of quantum field theory on curved spacetime, we derive the precise expression…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Ran Li

We compute the semi-classical potential arising from a generic theory of cubic gravity, a higher derivative theory of spin-2 particles, in the framework of modern amplitude techniques. We show that there are several interesting aspects of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 William T Emond , Nathan Moynihan

A quantum mechanical formulation of de Sitter cosmological spacetimes still eludes string theory. In this paper we conjecture a potentially rigorous framework in which the status of de Sitter space is the same as that of a resonance in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-15 Jonathan Maltz , Leonard Susskind

We calculate graviton multi-point amplitudes in an anti-de Sitter black brane background for higher-derivative gravity of arbitrary order in numbers of derivatives. The calculations are performed using tensor graviton modes in a particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-11 M. M. W. Shawa , A. J. M. Medved

We investigated the elastic scattering problem with deformed Heisenberg algebra leading to the existence of a minimal length. The continuity equations for the moving particle in deformed space were constructed. We obtained the Green's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. M. Stetsko , V. M. Tkachuk

The paper discusses the applicability of WKB and Born (small perturbations) approximations in the problem of the backscattering of quantum particles and classical waves by one-dimensional smooth potentials with amplitudes small compared to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Yu. Bliokh , V. D. Freilikher , N. M. Makarov

Motivated by the study of extreme mass-ratio binary systems, recent work has explored the use of curved backgrounds in computations of classical gravitational amplitudes [arXiv:2308.15304, arXiv:2308.14832, arXiv:2406.14770]. While these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Carl Jordan Eriksen

We give a systematic analysis of forward scattering in 3$+$1-dimensional quantum gravity, at center of mass energies comparable or larger than the Planck energy. We show that quantum gravitational effects in this kinematical regime are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Herman Verlinde , Erik Verlinde

We perform cosmological perturbation theory in Hassan-Rosen bimetric gravity for general homogeneous and isotropic backgrounds. In the de Sitter approximation, we obtain decoupled sets of massless and massive scalar gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Marcus Berg , Igor Buchberger , Jonas Enander , Edvard Mortsell , Stefan Sjors

Using the principles of the modern scattering amplitudes programme, we develop a formalism for constructing the amplitudes of three-dimensional topologically massive gauge theories and gravity. Inspired by recent developments in four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-16 Nathan Moynihan

We apply the S-matrix formalism developed in Part I to the interacting scalar theory in four-dimensional de Sitter spacetime. The amplitudes are computed in the angular momentum basis, appropriate to the representations of $SO(1,4)$ de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

We report a quantum study of the carrier scattering induced by graphene ripples. Crucial differences between the scattering induced by the ripple and ordinary scattering were found. In contrast to the latter, in which the Born approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-07 Daqing Liu , Shuyue Chen , Shengli Zhang , Ning Ma

We explicitly work out the de Sitter breaking contributions to the recent solution for the de Donder gauge graviton propagator on de Sitter. We also provide explicit power series expansions for the two structure functions, which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-13 E. O. Kahya , S. P. Miao , R. P. Woodard