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Symmetric teleparallel gravity theories, in which the gravitational interaction is attributed to the nonmetricity of a flat, symmetric, but not metric-compatible affine connection, have been a topic of growing interest in recent studies.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-03 Manuel Hohmann

We uncover a combinatorial structure governing the differential equations satisfied by wavefunction coefficients of scalar fields with generic masses in de Sitter space. Using an integral representation of the massive mode functions, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 Daniel Baumann , Austin Joyce , Hayden Lee , Kamran Salehi Vaziri

In this work we present scattering functions of conjugates consisting of a colloid particle and a self-avoiding polymer chain. This model is directly derived from the two point correlation function with the inclusion of excluded volume…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-25 Xin Li , Christopher N. Lam , Luis E. Sánchez-Diáz , Gregory S. Smith , Bradley D. Olsen , Wei-Ren Chen

We present the holographic predictions for cosmological 3-point correlators, involving both scalar and tensor modes, for a universe which started in a non-geometric holographic phase. Holographic formulae relate the cosmological 3-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-11 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

Cosmological correlators encode statistical properties of the initial conditions of our universe. Mathematically, they can often be written as Mellin integrals of a certain rational function associated to graphs, namely the flat space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Claudia Fevola , Guilherme L. Pimentel , Anna-Laura Sattelberger , Tom Westerdijk

We describe a new sequence of polytopes which characterize A_infinity maps from a topological monoid to an A_infinity space. Therefore each of these polytopes is a quotient of the corresponding multiplihedron. Later term(s) in our sequence…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-05-08 Stefan Forcey

Cosmological correlators encode invaluable information about the wavefunction of the primordial universe. In this letter we present a duality between correlators and wavefunction coefficients that is valid to all orders in the loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 David Stefanyszyn , Xi Tong , Yuhang Zhu

Usual inflation is realized with a slow rolling scalar field minimally coupled to gravity. In contrast, we consider dynamics of a scalar with a flat effective potential, conformally coupled to gravity. Surprisingly, it contains an attractor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Lev Kofman , Shinji Mukohyama

We show that the wavefunction of the universe in theories of conformally coupled scalars in power-law Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmologies satisfies a graphical coaction, by means of which we can understand its complete analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-27 Andrew McLeod , Andrzej Pokraka , Lecheng Ren

We introduce a family of polytopes -- in-in zonotopes -- whose boundary structure organizes the contributions to scalar equal-time correlators in flat space computed via the in-in formalism. We provide explicit Minkowski sum and facet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-28 Ross Glew

Cosmological correlation functions contain valuable information about the primordial Universe, with possible signatures of new massive particles at very high energies. Recent developments, including the cosmological bootstrap, bring new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-12 Guilherme L. Pimentel , Dong-Gang Wang

The geometric structure of S-matrix encapsulated by the "Amplituhedron program" has begun to reveal itself even in non-supersymmetric quantum field theories. Starting with the seminal work of Arkani-Hamed, Bai, He and Yan it is now…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Mrunmay Jagadale , Alok Laddha

We discuss the correlation function for the metric for homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies. The exact propagator equation determines the correlation function as the inverse of the second functional derivative of the quantum effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 C. Wetterich

A shape of a combinatorial polytope is a convex embedding into Euclidean space. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a piecewise linear map between two shapes of the same polytope to be a compression (respectively a weak…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-24 José Ayala , David Kirszenblat , J. Hyam Rubinstein

In the recent works [arXiv:1803.05809],[arXiv: 1806.01842], Halohedron emerged as amplituhedron for 1-loop planar diagrams in bi-adjoint massless $\phi^3$ theory. Halohedron is a specific case of graph cubeahedron where the considered graph…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-31 Saroj Chhatoi

In [1], two of the present authors along with P. Raman attempted to extend the Amplituhedron program for scalar field theories [2] to quartic scalar interactions. In this paper we develop various aspects of this proposal. Using recent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-12 P B Aneesh , Pinaki Banerjee , Mrunmay Jagadale , Renjan Rajan John , Alok Laddha , Sujoy Mahato

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 introduce new families of combinatorial objects whose enumeration computes volumes of flow polytopes. These objects provide an interpretation, based on parking functions, of Baldoni and Vergne's generalization of a volume formula…

We show that cosmological wavefunction coefficients associated with $n$-site chain and loop graphs for a cubic scalar theory in de Sitter spacetime have symbol alphabets given by subsets of $A_{2n{-}2}$ and $B_{2n{-}1}$ cluster variables,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Shruti Paranjape , Marcos Skowronek , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , He-Chen Weng

By employing the ${\rm AdS}_3/{\rm CFT}_2$ correspondence in this note we observe an analogy between the structures found in connection with the Arkani-Hamed-Bai-He-Yan (ABHY) associahedron used for understanding scattering amplitudes, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-19 Péter Lévay