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Inflation models make specific predictions for a tensor-scalar-scalar three-point correlation, or bispectrum, between one gravitational-wave (tensor) mode and two density-perturbation (scalar) modes. This tensor-scalar-scalar correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Donghui Jeong , Marc Kamionkowski

Correlators of large-scale fluctuations produced during cosmic inflation are major observables of inflationary cosmology. In cosmological collider physics, many interesting correlators are generated through loop processes. However,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-15 Hongyu Zhang

Solid inflation is an effective field theory of inflation in which isotropy and homogeneity are accomplished via a specific combination of anisotropic sources (three scalar fields that individually break isotropy). This results in specific…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-11 Nicola Bartolo , Marco Peloso , Angelo Ricciardone , Caner Unal

We present the full form of a four-point correlation function of large BPS operators in planar N = 4 Super Yang-Mills to any loop order. We do this by following a bootstrap philosophy based on three simple axioms pertaining to (i) the space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 Frank Coronado

We quantitatively estimate the leading higher derivative corrections to ${\mathcal{N}}=1$ supergravity derived from IIB string compactifications and study how they may affect moduli stabilisation and LVS inflation models. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-22 Michele Cicoli , Matteo Licheri , Pellegrino Piantadosi , Fernando Quevedo , Pramod Shukla

We calculate the action and the interaction Hamiltonians to all orders in perturbation theory in the model of single field inflation with a transient ultra slow-roll phase. Employing the formalism of EFT of inflation, we obtain a compact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Hassan Firouzjahi , Bahar Nikbakht

Loop corrections to primordial correlation functions are unavoidable due to the non-linear nature of gravity. Previous works have established a robust framework for computing the renormalised one-loop power spectra of scalar and tensor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Matteo Braglia , Sebastián Céspedes , Lucas Pinol

In this paper, we present a framework for the analytic bootstrap of three-point energy correlators, a crucial observable in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory and quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Our approach combines spherical contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Jianyu Gong , Andrzej Pokraka , Kai Yan , Xiaoyuan Zhang

This proceedings contribution provides an overview of Loop Blow-up Inflation and updates its observational predictions and their comparison with the latest CMB and BAO data from combined analyses of SPT, Planck, ACT, and BICEP/Keck, as well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-09 Sukŗti Bansal

We derive a one-loop effective description of axion inflation by integrating out a heavy Dirac fermion with an inflaton-dependent complex mass undergoing a smooth localized threshold transition. The threshold induces correlated corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Kai-Ge Zhang , Jian-Feng He , Chengjie Fu , Zong-Kuan Guo

Calculating the action and the interaction Hamiltonian at higher orders in cosmological perturbation theory is a cumbersome task. We employ the formalism of EFT of inflation in the decoupling limit for single-field ultra slow-roll (USR)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Hassan Firouzjahi , Bahar Nikbakht

We study the cosmology in the presence of arbitrary couplings between $p$-forms in 4-dimensional space-time for a general action respecting gauge symmetry and parity invariance. The interaction between 0-form (scalar field $\phi$) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-15 Juan P. Beltrán Almeida , Alejandro Guarnizo , Ryotaro Kase , Shinji Tsujikawa , César A. Valenzuela-Toledo

We study the analytic properties of tree-level wavefunction coefficients in quasi-de Sitter space. We focus on theories which spontaneously break dS boost symmetries and can produce significant non-Gaussianities. The corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-15 David Meltzer

We calculate the one-loop corrections in bispectrum of CMB scale perturbations induced from the small scale modes undergoing an intermediate phase of USR inflation in scenarios employed for PBHs formation. Using the formalism of effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-18 Hassan Firouzjahi

The evolution of high order correlation functions of a test scalar field in arbitrary inflationary backgrounds is computed. Whenever possible, exact results are derived from quantum field theory calculations. Taking advantage of the fact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-18 Francis Bernardeau

Inspired by the amplitude bootstrap program, the spirit of this work is to constrain the space of consistent inflationary correlation functions - specifically, the bispectrum of curvature perturbations - using fundamental principles such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-27 Claudia de Rham , Sadra Jazayeri , Andrew J. Tolley

We investigate the one-loop quantum correction to the power spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations in the ultra-slow-roll (USR) inflationary scenario, incorporating the backreaction effect from curvature perturbations. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Cheng-Jun Fang , Zhen-Hong Lyu , Chao Chen , Zong-Kuan Guo

We study the structure of two-point correlators of the inflationary field fluctuations in order to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the existing methods to calculate primordial spectra. We present a description motivated by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 José T. Gálvez Ghersi , Andrei V. Frolov

We consider an infrared truncated massless minimally coupled scalar field with a quartic self-interaction in the locally de Sitter background of an inflating universe. We compute the two-point correlation function of the scalar at one and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 V. K. Onemli

The numerical conformal bootstrap is used to study mixed correlators in $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in $d=4$ spacetime dimensions. Systems of four-point functions involving scalar chiral and real operators are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Daliang Li , David Meltzer , Andreas Stergiou