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Significant progress has been made in our understanding of the analytic structure of FRW wavefunction coefficients, facilitated by the development of efficient algorithms to derive the differential equations they satisfy. Moreover, recent…

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We demonstrate, by a simple analysis, that cosmological line elements related by scale factor duality also exhibit a duality with respect to the conservation/violation of the Weak Energy Condition (WEC) by the matter that acts as the source…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Sayan Kar

We study equal-time in-in correlators of massless scalar fields in flat space at one loop. Using the time-ordered decomposition of correlators together with a cosmological analogue of the Baikov representation, we systematically construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Guilherme L. Pimentel , Tom Westerdijk

The interplay between cosmology and strongly coupled dynamics can yield transient spectral features that vanish at late times, but which may leave behind phenomenological signatures in the spectrum of primordial fluctuations. Of particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Jay Hubisz , Seung J. Lee , He Li , Bharath Sambasivam

Recently, the wavefunction coefficients for conformally coupled scalars in an FRW cosmology have been presented as a sum over amplitude-like functions known as {\it amplitubes}. In this work we extend this analysis to full {\it correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-15 Ross Glew

We propose a new systematic method of studying correlations between parameters that describe an astronomical (or any) physical system. We recall that behind Dimensionless scaling laws in complex, self-interacting physical objects lies a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-26 R. N. Henriksen , J. A. Irwin

In this Letter, we initiate a systematic study of the $n$-point correlation functions (CF) in gauge theories in the sequential light-cone (SLC) limit. Focusing on QCD, we formulate a factorization theorem for the CF of four vector currents…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-10 Hao Chen , Pier Francesco Monni , Zhaoyan Pang , Gherardo Vita , Hua Xing Zhu

Accounting for all the relativistic effects, we have developed the fully nonlinear gauge-invariant formalism for describing the cosmological observables and presented the second-order perturbative expressions associated with light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-03 Matteo Magi , Jaiyul Yoo

The correlators of large-scale fluctuations belong to the most important observables in modern cosmology. Recently, there have been considerable efforts in analytically understanding the cosmological correlators and the related wavefunction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-14 Bingchu Fan , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Motivated by an earlier work on fractional-action cosmology with a periodic weight function [1], we extend it by choosing a power-law weight function in the action. In this approach, we obtain a varying gravitational coupling constant. We…

General Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 Mubasher Jamil , Muneer A. Rashid , D. Momeni , O. Razina , Kuralay Esmakhanova

The history of the Universe and the forces that shaped it are encoded in maps of the cosmos. From understanding these maps, we gain insights into nature that are inaccessible by other means. Unfortunately, the connection between fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-20 Daniel Green

Cosmological correlators are very important objects in cosmology as they offer us a huge amount of information of the early universe. They reside on the future boundary of a de Sitter space and can be calculated by two methods. First method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-13 Nirmalya Brahma

We used the mark weighted correlation functions (MCFs), $W(s)$, to study the large scale structure of the Universe. We studied five types of MCFs with the weighting scheme $\rho^\alpha$, where $\rho$ is the local density, and $\alpha$ is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Yizhao Yang , Haitao Miao , Qinglin Ma , Miaoxin Liu , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Jaime Forero-Romero , Yuanzhu Huang , Limin Lai , Qiyue Qian , Yi Zheng , Xiao-Dong Li

The unitarity of time evolution, or colloquially the conservation of probability, sits at the heart of our descriptions of fundamental interactions via quantum field theory. The implications of unitarity for scattering amplitudes are well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-15 Harry Goodhew , Sadra Jazayeri , Enrico Pajer

We investigate whether neighbor-density-weighted marked correlation functions (MCFs) can extract cosmological information beyond the standard redshift-space two-point correlation function (2PCF). Using the Kun suite of 129 $w_0w_a$CDM$+\sum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Xu Xiao , Xiao-Dong Li , Yiqi Huang , Le Zhang

We investigate cosmological correlators for conformally coupled $\phi^4$ theory in four-dimensional de Sitter space. These \textit{in-in} correlators differ from scattering amplitudes for massless particles in flat space due to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-01 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Arthur Lipstein , Jiajie Mei , Ivo Sachs , Pierre Vanhove

Cosmological correlation functions are significantly more complex than their flat-space analogues, such as tree-level scattering amplitudes. While these amplitudes have simple analytic structure and clear factorisation properties,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Denis Werth

Cosmic flexion, like cosmic shear, is a correlation function whose signal originates from the large-scale structure of the universe. Building on the observational success of cosmic shear, along with the unprecedented quality of large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-01 Evan J. Arena , David M. Goldberg , David J. Bacon

Both the Wavefunction of the Universe and the Schwinger-Keldysh in-in formalism are central tools for analyzing primordial cosmological observables, such as equal-time correlation functions. While their conceptual equivalence is well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Gonzalo A. Palma

Cosmography is a model-independent phenomenological approach to observational cosmology, relying on Taylor series expansions of physical quantities as a function of the cosmological redshift or other analogous variables. A recent work…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 C. J. A. P. Martins