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We investigate the details of the canonical quantization of effective quantum field theories in anti-de Sitter spacetime, emphasizing the stability of the quantum vacuum. We take the scalar and Maxwell fields as examples. For the…

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We obtain effective equations of inflationary dynamics for the mean inflaton and metric fields in the no-boundary and tunneling quantum states of the Universe. In the slow roll approximation (taking the form of the local Schwiger-DeWitt…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

We study the symmetry breaking and restoration behavior of a self-interacting charged scalar field theory under the influence of a constant electric field and finite temperature. Our study is performed in the context of the optimized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-07 William R. Tavares , Rudnei O. Ramos , Ricardo L. S. Farias , Sidney S. Avancini

Calculating the quantum evolution of a de Sitter universe on superhorizon scales is notoriously difficult. To address this challenge, we introduce the Soft de Sitter Effective Theory (SdSET). This framework holds for superhorizon modes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Timothy Cohen , Daniel Green

We calculate two-point functions of scalar fields of mass $m$ and their conjugate momenta at the late-time boundary of de Sitter with Bunch-Davies boundary conditions, in general $d+1$ spacetime dimensions. We perform the calculation using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-31 Gizem Sengor , Constantinos Skordis

In multifield inflation driven by $d$ scalar fields, $O (d)$ symmetry renders the number of fields irrelevant at classical level. This ceases to be the case once stochastic effects are accommodated. The statistical quantities such as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Tomo Takahashi , Koki Tokeshi

We formulate an effective field theory (EFT) of coupled dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) interacting through energy and momentum transfers. In the DE sector, we exploit the EFT of vector-tensor theories with the presence of a preferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Katsuki Aoki , Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Masroor C. Pookkillath , Shinji Tsujikawa

In a QFT on de Sitter background, one can study correlators between fields pushed to the future and past horizons of a comoving observer. This is a neat probe of the physics in the observer's causal diamond (known as the static patch). We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-22 Mehrdad Mirbabayi , Flavio Riccardi

In this work we construct a formalism that can reveal the general characteristics of classes of viable $F(R)$ inflationary theories. The assumptions we make is that the slow-roll era occurs, and that the de Sitter scalaron mass $m^2(R)$ of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 V. K. Oikonomou

In this paper we wish to point out the possibility of using a complex scalar field in a constant roll inflationary model, as needed for observational viability. We extend the idea of real field inflaton with constant rate of roll to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-04 Ali Mohammadi , Nahid Ahmadi , Mehdi Shokri

Cosmic inflation provides a compelling framework for explaining several observed features of our Universe, but its viability depends on an efficient reheating phase that converts the inflaton's energy into Standard Model particles. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Leia Barrowes , Fred C. Adams , Anthony M. Bloch , Scott Watson

We study the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure for cosmic density and momentum fields. We show that the finite part of the two-loop calculation and its counterterms introduce an apparent scale dependence for the leading order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-08 Tobias Baldauf , Lorenzo Mercolli , Matias Zaldarriaga

We propose possible properties of quantum gravity in de Sitter space, and find that they relate the value of the cosmological constant to parameters of the Standard Model. In de Sitter space we suggest (i) that the most sharply defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Mark P. Hertzberg , Abraham Loeb

A new class of gravity-matter model defined with an independent non-Riemannian volume form is studied, in the second order formalism. The action has a global scale invariance symmetry, which can be broken by the equation of motion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 David Benisty , Eduardo I. Guendelman

We briefly review the arising of an inflationary phase in the Universe evolution in order to discuss an inhomogeneous cosmological solution in presence of a real self interacting scalar field minimally coupled to gravity in the region of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Imponente

Covariant, self-interacting scalar quantum field theories admit solutions for low enough spacetime dimensions, but when additional divergences appear in higher dimensions, the traditional approach leads to results, such as triviality, that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 John R. Klauder

In this article, we study in detail the linear dynamics and cubic interactions for any number $N_\mathrm{field}$ of scalar fields during inflation, directly in terms of the observable curvature perturbation $\zeta$ and $N_\mathrm{field}-1$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-11 Lucas Pinol

We present the model-independent studies of non attractor inflation in the context of effective field theory (EFT) of inflation. Within the EFT approach two independent branches of non-attractor inflation solutions are discovered in which a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-06 Mohammad Akhshik , Hassan Firouzjahi , Sadra Jazayeri

We employ the superpotential technique for the reconstruction of cosmological models with a non-minimally coupled scalar field evolving on a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background. The key point in this method is that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-08 A. Yu. Kamenshchik , A. Tronconi , G. Venturi , S. Yu. Vernov

We investigate the divergent perturbative series of correlation functions for a massless, self-interacting scalar field in de Sitter space. First, we use our previously proposed method of autonomous equations to obtain finite time-dependent…

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