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We study constant-roll inflation in the presence of a gauge field coupled to an inflaton. By imposing the constant anisotropy condition, we find new exact anisotropic constant-roll inflationary solutions which include anisotropic power-law…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-13 Asuka Ito , Jiro Soda

N-Point Correlation Functions, usually with N = 2, 3, and their Fourier-space analogs power spectrum and bispectrum, are major tools used in cosmology to capture the clustering of large-scale structure. We outline how the clustering these…

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We present a complete framework for numerical calculation of the power spectrum and bispectrum in canonical inflation with an arbitrary number of light or heavy fields. Our method includes all relevant effects at tree-level in the loop…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-23 Mafalda Dias , Jonathan Frazer , David J. Mulryne , David Seery

We consider the 1d CFT defined by the half-BPS Wilson line in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills. Using analytic bootstrap methods we derive the four-point function of the super-displacement operator at fourth order in a strong…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-10 Pietro Ferrero , Carlo Meneghelli

Until recently our knowledge of the primordial curvature perturbation was relatively modest. Ever since COBE delivered its map of data we know the scalar spectrum of primordial perturbations is approximately flat, with the power being only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-24 Raquel H. Ribeiro

We investigate cosmological perturbations generated during de Sitter inflation in the three-coupled scalar theory. This theory is composed of three coupled scalars ($\phi_p,p=1,2,3$) to give a sixth-order derivative scalar theory for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Yun Soo Myung , Taeyoon Moon

We develop integration-by-parts (IBP) reduction and differential equations for massive loop integrals of cosmological correlators in de Sitter (dS) spacetime, demonstrating the feasibility of this approach. We identify a structural property…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Jiaqi Chen , Bo Feng , Zhehan Qin , Yi-Xiao Tao

We revisit inflation coupled with vector fields employing kinetic coupling in the comoving gauge. It is known that there is a cumulative effect $IN^2$ on the curvature power spectrum. For a large number of e-foldings $N$, this contribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Chong-Bin Chen

We reconsider back-reaction from large amplitude, short-scale perturbations onto a long wavelength adiabatic mode. In a loop expansion of the long-mode power spectrum, this back-reaction appears first at 1-loop. Due to the separation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Laura Iacconi , David Mulryne , David Seery

We present a simple effective field theory formulation of a general family of single field flux monodromy models for which strong coupling effects at large field values can flatten the potential and activate operators with higher powers of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-12 Guido D'Amico , Nemanja Kaloper , Albion Lawrence

We compute the full one-loop corrections to the primordial tensor power spectrum in an inflationary scenario with a non-minimally coupled spectator field, using the in-in formalism. We derive semi-analytic results for the scalar-sourced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Zhe Li , Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

We calculate IR divergent graviton one-loop corrections to scalar correlators in de Sitter space, and show that the leading IR contribution may be reproduced via simple semiclassical consistency relations. One can likewise use such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Steven B. Giddings , Martin S. Sloth

Based on the stochastic gravity, we study the loop corrections to the scalar and tensor perturbations during inflation. Since the loop corrections to scalar perturbations suffer infrared (IR) divergence, we consider the IR regularization to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-11 Yuko Urakawa , Kei-ichi Maeda

Recent measurements of the galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF) have seemingly detected non-zero parity-odd modes at high significance. Since gravity, the primary driver of galaxy formation and evolution is parity-even, any parity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-26 Matthew Reinhard , Zachary Slepian , Jiamin Hou , Alessandro Greco

Constraining inflationary models with high precision bispectra across broad parameter ranges is a challenging task, requiring intensive computations at all stages, first, predicting the primordial inflation bispectrum from quantum field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Bowei Zhang , E. P. S. Shellard , James R. Fergusson

We study the conformal bootstrap for systems of correlators involving non-identical operators. The constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity for such mixed correlators can be phrased in the language of semidefinite programming. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-05 Filip Kos , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

An estimate of the one-loop correction to the power spectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation is given, assuming it is generated during a phase of single-field, slow-roll inflation. The loop correction splits into two parts, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-09 David Seery

We study leading order perturbative corrections to the two point correlation function of the scalar field describing the curvature perturbation in a slow-roll inflationary background, paying particular attention to the contribution of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Wei Xue , Xian Gao , Robert Brandenberger

We use the conformal bootstrap approach to explore $5D$ CFTs with $O(N)$ global symmetry, which contain $N$ scalars $\phi_i$ transforming as $O(N)$ vector. Specifically, we study multiple four-point correlators of the leading $O(N)$ vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Zhijin Li , Ning Su

If a sizeable tensor-to-scalar ratio ~0.1 turns out to be detected and a negative running of the scalar spectral index ~0.01 is significantly required by the data, the vast majority of single field models of inflation will be ruled out. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-05 Guillermo Ballesteros , J. Alberto Casas