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We revisit the literature on locality on de Sitter with the goal to organize the main results with respect to the representation theory of the isometry group of four dimensional de Sitter. We make use of the late-time behavior of two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-30 Murat Onem , Gizem Sengor

Two-dimensional Schwarzschild-de Sitter is a convenient spacetime in which to study the effects of horizons on quantum fields since the spacetime contains two horizons, and the wave equation for a massless minimally coupled scalar field can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-02 Paul R. Anderson , Jennie Traschen

This paper is designed to be a practical tool for constructing and investigating two-point correlation functions in defect conformal field theory, directly in physical space, between any two bulk primaries or between a bulk primary and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Christopher P. Herzog , Abhay Shrestha

There are at least three different types of secular effects in the two-point correlation functions in scalar quantum field theories in de Sitter space-time. The first one is specific to de Sitter massless and tachyonic minimally coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-17 E. T. Akhmedov , U. Moschella , F. K. Popov

We propose an explicitly calculable example of holography on 3-dimensional de Sitter space by providing a prescription to analytic continue a higher-spin holography on 3-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. Applying the de Sitter holography,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Heng-Yu Chen , Yasuaki Hikida

We introduce a "radial" two-point invariant for quantum field theory in de Sitter (dS) analogous to the radial coordinate used in conformal field theory. We show that the two-point function of a free massive scalar in the Bunch-Davies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-08 Manuel Loparco , Jiaxin Qiao , Zimo Sun

We compute 1-loop corrections to Lorentz-signature de Sitter-invariant 2-point functions defined by the interacting Euclidean vacuum for massive scalar quantum fields with cubic and quartic interactions. Our results apply to all masses for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-23 Donald Marolf , Ian A. Morrison

We study correlation functions of scalar operators on the boundary of the $AdS_3$ space deformed by moving massive particles in the context of the AdS/CFT duality. To calculate two-point correlation functions we use the geodesic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-15 D. S. Ageev , I. Ya. Aref'eva , M. D. Tikhanovskaya

We study correlations in fermionic lattice systems with long-range interactions in thermal equilibrium. We prove a bound on the correlation decay between anti-commuting operators and generalize a long-range Lieb-Robinson type bound. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Senaida Hernández-Santana , Christian Gogolin , J. Ignacio Cirac , Antonio Acín

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

The two-point function for tensor metric perturbations around de Sitter spacetime including one-loop corrections from massless conformally coupled scalar fields is calculated exactly. We work in the Poincar\'e patch (with spatially flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-06 Markus B. Fröb , Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

We study the dynamics near big crunch singularities produced in asymptotic AdS cosmologies using gauge/gravity duality. The dual description consists of a constant mass deformation of ABJM theory on de Sitter space and is well-defined and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-18 Adam Bzowski , Thomas Hertog , Marjorie Schillo

We consider light scalar fields during inflation and show how the stochastic spectral expansion method can be used to calculate two-point correlation functions of an arbitrary local function of the field in de Sitter space. In particular,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-02 Tommi Markkanen , Arttu Rajantie , Stephen Stopyra , Tommi Tenkanen

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 study the decoherence effect of quantum superposition in de Sitter (dS) spacetime due to the presence of the cosmological horizon. Using the algebraic approach of quantum field theory on curved spacetime, we derive the precise expression…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Ran Li

We consider late-time correlators in de Sitter (dS) space for initial states related to the Bunch-Davies vacuum by a Bogoliubov transformation. We propose to study such late-time correlators by reformulating them in the familiar language of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-24 Alistair J. Chopping , Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

The two-point function characterizing the stress tensor fluctuations of a massless minimally coupled field for an invariant vacuum state in de Sitter spacetime is discussed. This two-point function is explicitly computed for spacelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

We examine the behavior of correlation functions for a massless scalar field in de Sitter space with a quartic interaction. We find that two-loop corrections are relevant, and that the resummation of these corrections generates a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Arvind Rajaraman

We study 2-point correlation functions for scalar operators in position space through holography including bulk cubic couplings as well as higher curvature couplings to the square of the Weyl tensor. We focus on scalar operators with large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Hare Krishna , D. Rodriguez-Gomez

Maldacena has shown that the wavefunction of the universe in de Sitter space can be viewed as the partition function of a conformal field theory. In this paper, we investigate this approach to the dS/CFT correspondence in further detail. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Matthew Dodelson