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Massive spinning particles acquire helicity-dependent chemical potentials during the inflation from axion-type couplings. Such spinning fields can mediate sizable inflaton correlators which we call the helical inflation correlators. Helical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-28 Zhehan Qin , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

We develop a Mellin space approach to boundary correlation functions in anti-de Sitter (AdS) and de Sitter (dS) spaces. Using the Mellin-Barnes representation of correlators in Fourier space, we show that the analytic continuation between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

Single-field models of inflation might lead to amplified scalar fluctuations on small scales due, for example, to a transient ultra-slow-roll phase. It was argued by Kristiano $\&$ Yokoyama in arXiv:2211.03395 that the enhanced amplitude of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Matthew W. Davies , Laura Iacconi , David J. Mulryne

It is well known that the correlation functions of a scalar field in a quasi-de Sitter space exhibit at the loop level cumulative infra-red effects proportional to the total number of e-foldings of inflation. Using the in-in formalism, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Antonio Riotto , Martin S. Sloth

How much spectral information is needed to determine the correlation functions of a conformal theory? We study this question in the context of planar supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, where integrability techniques accurately determine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Simon Caron-Huot , Frank Coronado , Anh-Khoi Trinh , Zahra Zahraee

Cosmological correlators encode rich information about physics at the Hubble scale and may exhibit characteristic oscillatory signals due to the exchange of massive particles. Although many 1-loop processes, especially those that break de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-22 Zhehan Qin

Two-point correlators and self-correlators of primordial perturbations in quasi-de Sitter spacetime backgrounds are considered. For large separations two-point correlators exhibit nearly scale invariance, while for short distances…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Adrian del Rio , Jose Navarro-Salas

We generalize Integration-By-Parts (IBP) and differential equations methods to de Sitter correlators related to inflation. While massive correlators in de Sitter spacetime are usually regarded as highly intricate, we find they have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-29 Jiaqi Chen , Bo Feng

We apply the in-in formalism to address the question of whether the size of the one-loop spectrum of curvature fluctuations in ultra-slow-roll inflation models designed for producing a large population of primordial black holes implies a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 Guillermo Ballesteros , Jesús Gambín Egea

We study loop corrections in the effective field theory of inflation with imaginary speed of sound, which has been shown to provide an effective description of multi-field inflationary models characterized by strongly non-geodesic motion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Yizhou Lu , Sébastien Renaux-Petel

The most general tree-level boundary correlation functions of quantum fields in inflationary spacetime involve multiple exchanges of massive states in the bulk, which are technically difficult to compute due to the multi-layer nested time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-13 Zhong-Zhi Xianyu , Jiaju Zang

We revisit the one-loop correction in curvature perturbation power spectrum in models of single field inflation which undergo a phase of ultra slow-roll (USR) inflation. We include the contributions from both the cubic and quartic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Hassan Firouzjahi

In this paper we extend our previous treatment of the one-loop corrections to inflation. Previously we calculated the one-loop corrections to the background and the two-point correlation function of inflaton fluctuations in a specific model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin S. Sloth

We compute the tree-level connected four-point function of the primordial curvature perturbation for a fairly general minimally coupled single field inflationary model, where the inflaton's Lagrangian is a general function of the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-14 Frederico Arroja , Shuntaro Mizuno , Kazuya Koyama , Takahiro Tanaka

In this final part of a series of three papers, we will assemble supersymmetric expressions for one-loop correlators in pure-spinor superspace that are BRST invariant, local, and single valued. A key driving force in this construction is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-11 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

The nature of one-loop corrections to long-wavelength CMB-scale modes in single-field inflation models with an intermediate USR phase remains a subject of active debate. In this work, we perform a detailed investigation into the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Haidar Sheikhahmadi , Amin Nassiri-Rad

Usual inflation is realized with a slow rolling scalar field minimally coupled to gravity. In contrast, we consider dynamics of a scalar with a flat effective potential, conformally coupled to gravity. Surprisingly, it contains an attractor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Lev Kofman , Shinji Mukohyama

We investigate the one loop effective potential of inflation in a standard model of chaotic inflation. The leading one loop corrections to the effective inflaton potential are evaluated in the quasi de Sitter background, and we estimate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin S. Sloth

Boostless Bootstrap techniques have been applied by many in the literature to compute pure scalar and graviton correlators. In this paper, we focus primarily on mixed graviton and scalar correlators. We start by developing an EFT of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 Diptimoy Ghosh , Kushan Panchal , Farman Ullah

We examine scalar quantum electrodynamics in power-law inflation space-time, and compute the one-loop correction to electric and magnetic field correlators at superhorizon separations. The effect at one-loop descends from the coupling of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Dražen Glavan , Gerasimos Rigopoulos