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We consider correlation functions in symmetric product ($S_N$) orbifold CFTs at large $N$ with arbitrary seed CFT. Specifically, we consider correlators of descendant operators constructed using both the full Virasoro generators $L_{m}$ and…

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We study one and two point functions of conformal field theories on spaces of maximal symmetry with and without boundaries and investigate their spectral representations. Integral transforms are found, relating the spectral decomposition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Kurt Hinterbichler , James Stokes , Mark Trodden

Quasi-primary correlators in two-dimensional conformal field theories deformed simultaneously by $T\bar T$ and root-$T\bar T$ are studied. A path-integral formulation motivated by the geometric realization of the combined deformation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Bo-Rui Li , Song He , Yu-Xiao Liu

We calculate the lowest-order non-linear contributions to the power spectrum, two-point correlation function, and smoothed variance of the density field, for Gaussian initial conditions and scale-free initial power spectra, $P(k) \sim k^n$.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Roman Scoccimarro , Josh Frieman

We study cosmological solutions to the low-energy effective action of heterotic string theory including possible leading order $\alpha'$ corrections and a potential for the dilaton. We consider the possibility that including such stringy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Damien A. Easson

We develop a new way to analytically calculate loop integrals in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale-Structure. Previous available methods show severe limitations beyond the one-loop power spectrum due to analytical challenges and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-15 Charalampos Anastasiou , Diogo P. L. Bragança , Leonardo Senatore , Henry Zheng

We demonstrate that the use of on-shell methods, involving calculation of the discontinuity across the t-channel cut associated with the exchange of a pair of massless particles, can be used to evaluate loop contributions to both the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-26 Barry R. Holstein

We show that, in any space-time dimension, the on-shell (electric) conformal Carrollian scalar can be interpreted as the flat-space limit of the singleton representation of the conformal algebra. In fact, a recently proposed higher-spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Xavier Bekaert , Andrea Campoleoni , Simon Pekar

We consider the correlation functions of Coulomb branch operators in four-dimensional N=2 Superconformal Field Theories (SCFTs) involving exactly one anti-chiral operator. These extremal correlators are the "minimal" non-holomorphic local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-26 Efrat Gerchkovitz , Jaume Gomis , Nafiz Ishtiaque , Avner Karasik , Zohar Komargodski , Silviu S. Pufu

The cosmological field equations sourced by a self-interacting scalar field are dynamically equivalent to a closed system of equations obtained by applying the moment method to non-linear Schr\"odinger equations possessing an underlying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-05 James E. Lidsey

The observation of primordial correlators by cosmological surveys is a very promising avenue to probe high energies and the perturbative regime of quantum gravity. Hence, it is imperative that we understand how these observables are shaped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-20 Enrico Pajer

Massive particles produced during inflation impact soft limits of primordial correlators. Searching for these signatures presents an exciting opportunity to uncover the particle spectrum in the inflationary epoch. We present…

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We study the imprint of a massive scalar particle on cosmological correlation functions, and suggest the way to determine the mass of the newly introduced particle, which is expected to be around 10^14 GeV. After reviewing the basic theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-06 Ryo Saito

We compute non-perturbative spectral functions in a scalar $\phi^4$-theory in three spacetime dimensions via the spectral functional renormalisation group. This approach allows for the direct, manifestly Lorentz covariant computation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-30 Jan Horak , Friederike Ihssen , Jan M. Pawlowski , Jonas Wessely , Nicolas Wink

The determination of the resolution of cosmological N-body simulations, i.e., the range of scales in which quantities measured in them represent accurately the continuum limit, is an important open question. We address it here using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-21 David Benhaiem , Michael Joyce , Francesco Sylos Labini

Using $\delta N$ formalism, in the context of a generic multi-field inflation driven on a non-flat field space background, we revisit the analytic expressions of the various cosmological observables such as scalar/tensor power spectra,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-07 Xin Gao , Tianjun Li , Pramod Shukla

We show how conformal partial waves (or conformal blocks) of spinor/tensor correlators can be related to each other by means of differential operators in four dimensional conformal field theories. We explicitly construct such differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-26 Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Emtinan Elkhidir , Denis Karateev , Marco Serone

Detecting parity violation on cosmological scales would provide a striking clue to new physics. Large-scale structure offers the raw statistical power -- many three-dimensional modes -- to make such tests. However, for scalar observables,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Zucheng Gao , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Zvonimir Vlah

The most effective use of data from current and upcoming large scale structure~(LSS) and CMB observations requires the ability to predict the clustering of LSS with very high precision. The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Matteo Cataneo , Simon Foreman , Leonardo Senatore

In celestial conformal field theory (CCFT), the 4d massless scalars are represented by 2d conformal operators with conformal dimensions $h=\bar{h}=(1+i\lambda)/2$. The Mellin transform of 4d massless scalar amplitudes gives the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-06 Wei Fan