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We study a class of two-point functions in a conformal field theory near a wedge. This is a set-up with two boundaries intersecting at an angle $\theta$. We compute it as a solution to the Dyson-Schwinger equation of motion for a quartic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-31 Agnese Bissi , Parijat Dey , Jacopo Sisti , Alexander Söderberg

We consider the two-dimensional Schwinger model of a massless charged fermion coupled to an Abelian gauge field on a fixed de Sitter background. The theory admits an exact solution, first examined by Jayewardena, and can be analyzed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-12 Dionysios Anninos , Tarek Anous , Alan Rios Fukelman

The late time limit of the power spectrum for heavy (principal series) fields in de Sitter space yields a series of polynomial terms with complex scaling dimensions. Such scaling behavior is expected to result from an associated operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-12 Timothy Cohen , Daniel Green , Yiwen Huang

We review recent discussions concerning the definition of a quantum field theory in a curved and noncommutative space, the Snyder--de Sitter space. For a quartic self-interacting scalar field in a spacetime of arbitrary dimension, we show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 S. A. Franchino-Viñas , S. Mignemi

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 analyze the computation of $n$-point correlation functions in de Sitter spacetime, including loop corrections, using the wavefunction of the universe approach. This method consists of two stages employing distinct Feynman rules. First,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-26 Javier Huenupi , Ellie Hughes , Gonzalo A. Palma , Spyros Sypsas

A crucial problem in quantum cosmology is a careful analysis of the one-loop semiclassical approximation for the wave function of the universe, after an appropriate choice of mixed boundary conditions. The results for Euclidean quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Giampiero Esposito , Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik

The calculation of loop corrections to the correlation functions of quantum fields during inflation or in the de~Sitter background presents greater challenges than in flat space due to the more complicated form of the mode functions. While…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Martin Beneke , Patrick Hager , Andrea F. Sanfilippo

We propose a worldsheet formula for tree-level correlation functions describing a scalar field with arbitrary mass and quartic self-interaction in de Sitter space, which is a simple model for inflationary cosmology. The correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-21 Humberto Gomez , Renann Lipinski Jusinskas , Arthur Lipstein

In previous work we have shown that the (\theta->\infty)-limit of \phi^4_4-quantum field theory on noncommutative Moyal space is an exactly solvable matrix model. In this paper we translate these results to position space. We show that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Harald Grosse , Raimar Wulkenhaar

We propose a new approach to compute correlators of quantum fields in de Sitter space. It is based on nonequilibrium field theory techniques, and exploits de Sitter symmetries so as to partially reduce the number of independent variables of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 R. Parentani , J. Serreau

We study the fundamentals of quantum field theory on a rigid de Sitter space. We show that the perturbative expansion of late-time correlation functions to all orders can be equivalently generated by a non-unitary Lagrangian on a Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Victor Gorbenko , Shota Komatsu

We discuss several aspects of quantum field theory of a scalar field in a Friedmann universe, clarifying and highlighting several conceptual and technical issues. (A) We show that one can map the dynamics of (1) a massless scalar field in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-17 Kinjalk Lochan , Karthik Rajeev , Amit Vikram , T. Padmanabhan

We investigate the principles of quantum field theory using a stiff de Sitter space. We demonstrate that a non-unitary Lagrangian on a Euclidean AdS geometry can produce the perturbative expansion of late-time correlation functions to all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 Sayantan Choudhury

We argue that a scalar field in de Sitter spacetime should feel explicit thermal effects associated with its curvature. Starting from the Bunch-Davies vacuum and a scalar field with small mass compared to the de Sitter curvature, we use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Nikos Irges , Antonis Kalogirou , Fotis Koutroulis

We propose a Mellin space approach to the evaluation of late-time momentum-space correlation functions of quantum fields in $\left(d+1\right)$-dimensional de Sitter space. The Mellin-Barnes representation makes manifest the analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Charlotte Sleight

We study quantum field theory on a de Sitter spacetime dS$_{d+1}$ background. Our main tool is the Hilbert space decomposition in irreducible unitary representations of its isometry group $SO(d+1,1)$. As the first application of the Hilbert…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-07 Matthijs Hogervorst , João Penedones , Kamran Salehi Vaziri

We study an interacting $\lambda\,\phi^4_{\star}$ scalar field defined on Snyder-de Sitter space. Due to the noncommutativity as well as the curvature of this space, the renormalization of the two-point function differs from the commutative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-01 S. A. Franchino-Viñas , S. Mignemi

We introduce and study an extension of the correlator of unparticle matter operators in a cosmological environment. Starting from FRW spaces we specialize to a de Sitter spacetime and derive its inflationary power spectrum which we find to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. L. Alberghi , A. Yu. Kamenshchik , A. Tronconi , G. P. Vacca , G. Venturi

In cosmology, correlation functions on a late-time boundary can arise from both field redefinitions and bulk interactions, which are usually believed to generate distinct results. In this letter, we propose a counterexample showcasing that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Donggang Wang , Xiangwei Wang , Yi Wang , Wenqi Yu