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We develop the path integral formalism for studying cosmological perturbations in multi-field inflation, which is particularly well suited to study quantum theories with gauge symmetries such as diffeomorphism invariance. We formulate the…

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We study a theory which generalizes the nonminimal coupling of matter to gravity by including derivative couplings. This leads to several interesting new dynamical phenomena in cosmology. In particular, the range of parameters in which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Luca Amendola

Cosmological correlators encode statistical properties of the initial conditions of our universe. Mathematically, they can often be written as Mellin integrals of a certain rational function associated to graphs, namely the flat space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Claudia Fevola , Guilherme L. Pimentel , Anna-Laura Sattelberger , Tom Westerdijk

In order to shed light on the quantum-to-classical transition of the primordial perturbations in single field inflation, we investigate the decoherence and associated quantum corrections to the correlation functions of superhorizon scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Francescopaolo Lopez , Nicola Bartolo

One of the fundamental objectives of contemporary cosmology is to understand the physics of the inflationary universe, owing to its observably verifiable predictions about the very early universe with an energy scale of $\sim 10^{16}$ GeV.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Aayush Randeep , Rajib Saha

In this work, we systematically present a new dynamical systems approach to standard inflationary processes and their variants as constant-roll inflation. Using the techniques presented in our work one can in general investigate the…

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We introduce a streamlined method for evaluating in-in loop integrals using dimensional regularization for diagrams with an arbitrary number of external legs and vertices, which complements earlier work and facilitates the extraction of the…

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In this paper we consider a generalized classical mechanics with fractional derivatives. The generalization is based on the time-clock randomization of momenta and coordinates taken from the conventional phase space. The fractional…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Aleksander Stanislavsky

It is well known that perturbative solutions of the Langevin equation can be used to calculate correlation functions in stochastic quantization. However, this work is challenging due to the absence of generalized rules. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-03 Moongul Byun

A statistical inference method is developed and tested for pairwise interacting systems whose degrees of freedom are continuous angular variables, such as planar spins in magnetic systems or wave phases in optics and acoustics. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 P. Tyagi , A. Pagnani , F. Antenucci , M. Ibáñez Berganza , L. Leuzzi

We provide a general formalism to calculate the infrared correlators of multiple interacting scalar fields in the de Sitter space by means of the stochastic approach. These scalar fields are treated as test fields and hence our result is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Hayato Motohashi , Teruaki Suyama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Does the observable spectrum of cosmic fluctuations depend on detailed initial conditions? This addresses the question if the general inflationary paradigm is sufficient to predict within a given model the spectrum and amplitude of cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-14 C. Wetterich

We present a new formula for the coaction of a large class of integrals. When applied to one-loop (cut) Feynman integrals, it can be given a diagrammatic representation purely in terms of pinches and cuts of the edges of the graph. The…

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We approach the cosmological inflation thought symmetries of differential equations. We consider the general inflaton field in a homogeneous Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker spacetime and with the use of conformal transformations…

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Within the framework of the interacting fluid formalism, we provide the numerical solution to the Boltzmann equation describing the evolution of an inflaton field coupled to radiation. We study the behavior of the system during the…

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A simple set of diagrammatic rules is formulated for perturbative evaluation of ``in-in" correlators, as is needed in cosmology and other nonequilibrium problems. These rules are both intuitive, and efficient for calculational purposes.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Steven B. Giddings , Martin S. Sloth

In this work, we propose a path integral-inspired formalism for computing the quantum thermal expectation values of spin systems, when subject to magnetic fields that can be time-dependent and can accommodate the presence of Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Thomas Nussle , Stam Nicolis , Iason Sofos , Joseph Barker

We show how to compute the purity and entanglement entropy for quantum fields in a systematic perturbative expansion. To that end, we generalize the in-in formalism to non-unitary dynamics (i.e. accounting for the presence of an…

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We examine the classical and quantum evolution of inflationary cosmological perturbations from quantum initial conditions, using the on-shell and off-shell contributions to correlators to investigate the signatures of interactions. In…

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