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Cosmological correlators, the natural observables of the primordial universe, have been extensively studied in the past two decades using the in-in formalism pioneered by Schwinger and Keldysh for the study of dissipative open systems.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-28 Yaniv Donath , Enrico Pajer

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

Our understanding of quantum correlators in cosmological spacetimes, including those that we can observe in cosmological surveys, has improved qualitatively in the past few years. Now we know many constraints that these objects must satisfy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 James Bonifacio , Enrico Pajer , Dong-Gang Wang

We combine spectral- and split representations to factorize multi-loop momentum space diagrams, in the Schwinger-Keldysh formulation for cosmological correlators, with massive scalars in the loop. This allows us to extend the resummation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 Jonathan Gräfe , Ivo Sachs

Developing our understanding of how correlations evolve during inflation is crucial if we are to extract information about the early Universe from our late-time observables. To that end, we revisit the time evolution of scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 Sebastian Cespedes , Anne-Christine Davis , Scott Melville

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

Using the Schwinger-Keldysh-formalism, reformulated in arXiv:2108.01695 as an effective field theory in Euclidean anti-de Sitter, we evaluate the one-loop cosmological four-point function of a conformally coupled interacting scalar field in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 T. Heckelbacher , I. Sachs , E. Skvortsov , P. Vanhove

Conformal field theory (CFT) dispersion relations reconstruct correlators in terms of their double discontinuity. When applied to the crossing equation, such dispersive transforms lead to sum rules that suppress the double-twist sector of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Anh-Khoi Trinh

We develop a nonperturbative tensor-network framework for computing cosmological correlators in de Sitter space and use it to test the proposal that suitably defined in-in correlators can be obtained from an in-out formalism by gluing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-30 Ujjwal Basumatary , Aninda Sinha , Xinan Zhou

We consider the dynamics of massive spinning fields during inflation and the resulting signatures in the cosmological correlators of inflaton perturbations computed in the Poincar\'e patch of de Sitter space. There are (at least) two ways…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-13 Trevor Cheung , David Stefanyszyn

Witten diagrams are basic objects for studying dynamics in AdS space, and also play key roles in the analytic functional bootstrap. However, these diagrams are notoriously hard to evaluate, making it extremely difficult to search for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-14 Xinan Zhou

Motivated by recent evidence that equal-time correlators can be simpler than the corresponding wavefunction coefficients, we study de Sitter correlators in conformally coupled $\phi^3$ theory directly. By inverting the momentum-space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Song He , Yong-Xiang Su , Dongyu Yang

We study conformal field theory in $d=1$ space-time dimensions. We derive a dispersion relation for the 4-point correlation function of identical bosons and fermions, in terms of the double discontinuity. This extends the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-10 Dean Carmi , Sudip Ghosh , Trakshu Sharma

In cosmology, correlation functions on a late-time boundary can arise from both field redefinitions and bulk interactions, which are usually believed to generate distinct results. In this letter, we propose a counterexample showcasing that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Donggang Wang , Xiangwei Wang , Yi Wang , Wenqi Yu

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Alexander Kamenshchik , Polina Petriakova , Tereza Vardanyan

Correlators of large-scale fluctuations produced during cosmic inflation are major observables of inflationary cosmology. In cosmological collider physics, many interesting correlators are generated through loop processes. However,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-15 Hongyu Zhang

We calculate IR divergent graviton one-loop corrections to scalar correlators in de Sitter space, and show that the leading IR contribution may be reproduced via simple semiclassical consistency relations. One can likewise use such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Steven B. Giddings , Martin S. Sloth

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

This paper presents a systematic and accurate treatment of the evolution of cosmological perturbations in self-interacting dark matter models, for particles which decoupled from the primordial plasma while relativistic. We provide a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 Rafael Yunis , Carlos R. Argüelles , Claudia G. Scóccola , Diana López Nacir , Gastón Giordano

Scattering amplitudes at weak coupling are highly constrained by Lorentz invariance, locality and unitarity, and depend on model details only through coupling constants and particle content. In this paper, we develop an understanding of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-01 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Daniel Baumann , Hayden Lee , Guilherme L. Pimentel