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In this work, we investigate how cosmological correlators can be reconstructed by applying the momentum-space dispersion formula to their discontinuities, treating them as functions of momentum variables associated with the corresponding de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Shibam Das , Debanjan Karan , Babli Khatun , Nilay Kundu

The time-ordered multilayer integrals have long been cited as major challenges in the analytical study of cosmological correlators and wavefunction coefficients. The recently proposed family tree decomposition technique solved these time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-04 Bingchu Fan , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Recently considerable efforts have been devoted to computing cosmological correlators and the corresponding wavefunction coefficients, as well as understanding their analytical structures. In this note, we revisit the computation of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 Song He , Xuhang Jiang , Jiahao Liu , Qinglin Yang , Yao-Qi Zhang

A novel definition of holographic correlation functions on the celestial sphere of Minkowski space was recently introduced in arXiv:2301.01810 as the extrapolation of bulk time-ordered correlation functions to the celestial sphere. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-06 Francesca Pacifico , Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

We revisit the prescription commonly used to define holographic correlators on the celestial sphere of Minkowski space as an integral transform of flat space scattering amplitudes, known as celestial amplitudes. We propose a resolution to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-23 Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

In the standard approach to deriving inflationary predictions, we evolve a vacuum state in time according to the rules of a given model. Since the only observables are the future values of correlators and not their time evolution, this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Sadra Jazayeri , Enrico Pajer , David Stefanyszyn

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

Massive fields can imprint unique oscillatory features on primordial correlation functions or inflationary correlators, which is dubbed the cosmological collider signal. In this work, we analytically investigate the effects of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-20 Shuntaro Aoki , Toshifumi Noumi , Fumiya Sano , Masahide Yamaguchi

We revisit the extrapolate dictionary for massless scattering in flat spacetime and identify a soft contribution that is typically dropped from the saddle point approximation. We show how to consistently regulate the extrapolation to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-29 Eivind Jørstad , Sabrina Pasterski

We are investigating if the double copy structure as product of scattering amplitudes of gauge theories applies to cosmological correlators computed in a class of theories for inflation by the operatorial version of the In-In formalism of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 A. R. Fazio

We recently proposed a formula for tree-level $n$-point correlators of massive $\phi^4$ theory in de Sitter momentum space which consists of an integral over $n$ punctures on the Riemann sphere and differential operators in the future…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-05 Humberto Gomez , Renann Lipinski Jusinskas , Arthur Lipstein

We present a differential representation for holographic four-point correlators. In this representation, the correlators are given by acting differential operators on certain seed functions. The number of these functions is much smaller…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-09 Zhongjie Huang , Bo Wang , Ellis Ye Yuan

Using the recently developed cosmological bootstrap method, we compute the exact analytical solution for the seed integral appearing in cosmological correlators with double massive scalar exchanges. The result is explicit, valid in any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-16 Shuntaro Aoki , Lucas Pinol , Fumiya Sano , Masahide Yamaguchi , Yuhang Zhu

Correlators in symmetric orbifold CFTs are given by a finite sum of admissible branched covers of the 2d spacetime. We consider a Gross-Mende like limit where all operators have large twist, and show that the corresponding branched covers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Matthias R. Gaberdiel , Rajesh Gopakumar , Bob Knighton , Pronobesh Maity

An efficient technique for computing perturbation power spectra in field ordering theories of cosmic structure formation is introduced, enabling computations to be carried out with unprecedented precision. Large scale simulations are used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Ue-Li Pen , Uros Seljak , Neil Turok

We define a perturbatively calculable quantity--the on-shell correlator--which furnishes a unified description of particle dynamics in curved spacetime. Specializing to the case of flat and anti-de Sitter space, on-shell correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Clifford Cheung , Julio Parra-Martinez , Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We present a new analytic approach to describe large scale structure formation in the mildly non-linear regime. The central object of the method is the time-dependent probability distribution function generating correlators of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-09 Diego Blas , Mathias Garny , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Sergey Sibiryakov

Signatures of heavy particles during inflation are exponentially suppressed by the Boltzmann factor when the masses are far above the Hubble scale. In more realistic scenarios, however, scale-dependent features may change this conventional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Dong-Gang Wang , Bowei Zhang

We provide a general formalism to calculate the infrared correlators of multiple interacting scalar fields in the de Sitter space by means of the stochastic approach. These scalar fields are treated as test fields and hence our result is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Hayato Motohashi , Teruaki Suyama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We use the recently proposed generalised on-shell representation for scattering amplitudes and a consistency test to explore the space of tree-level consistent couplings in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The extension of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Paolo Benincasa , Eduardo Conde