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In the ${\rm AdS}_3/{\rm CFT}_2$ setup we elucidate how gauge invariant boundary patterns of entanglement of the CFT vacuum are encoded into the bulk via the coefficient dynamics of an $A_{N-3}$, $N\geq 4$ cluster algebra. In the static…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-01 Péter Lévay , Bercel Boldis

We derive exact series solutions for the Wheeler-DeWitt equation corresponding to a spatially closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe with cosmological constant for arbitrary operator ordering of the scale factor of the universe. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. L. Wiltshire

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 discuss the quantization of a scalar particle moving in two-dimensional de Sitter space. We construct the conformal quantum mechanical model on the asymptotic boundary of de Sitter space in the infinite past. We obtain explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott Ness , George Siopsis

This is a first study of the cosmology of classical fractional gravity, a nonlocal proposal endowed with self-adjoint fractional d'Alembertian operators which serves as the basis for an ultraviolet-complete theory of quantum gravity. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Iván Salvador-García , Gianluca Calcagni

We show that cosmological wavefunctions in $\phi^n$ theories naturally generalize flat-space $\mathrm{Tr}(\phi^3)$ scattering amplitudes: via a simple map from tube variables to Mandelstam invariants, each wavefunction coefficient…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Yang Li , Laurentiu Rodina

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

We consider the simplest four-point scattering amplitude of $SO(n)$ tensor multiplets in six-dimensional (2,0) supergravity on AdS$_3\times$S$^3$. Using crossing symmetry and the consistency of the operator product expansion in the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Francesco Aprile , Hynek Paul , Michele Santagata

We review various aspects of de Sitter spacetime in string theory: its status as an effective field theory spacetime solution, its relation to the vacuum energy problem in string theory, its (global) holographic definition in terms of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-30 Per Berglund , Tristan Hübsch , Djordje Minic

We show that any accelerating Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmology with equation of state w < -1/3 (and therefore not only a de Sitter stage with w =-1) exhibits three-dimensional conformal symmetry on future constant-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

We compute the late-time correlation functions on three-dimensional de Sitter spacetime for a higher-spin gravity theory. For this, we elaborate on the formulation to obtain the wave functional of universe from a dual conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Heng-Yu Chen , Shi Chen , Yasuaki Hikida

We establish a precise relation between the modular bootstrap, used to constrain the spectrum of 2D CFTs, and the sphere packing problem in Euclidean geometry. The modular bootstrap bound for chiral algebra $U(1)^c$ maps exactly to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Thomas Hartman , Dalimil Mazáč , Leonardo Rastelli

The strong constraints of conformal symmetry cause any nearly-conformal sector to blueshift tensor fluctuations in cosmology. Hidden sectors with approximate conformal symmetry, which may be quite large, are a well-motivated extension of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-25 Matthew Baumgart , Jonathan J. Heckman , Logan Thomas

We propose a new consistency condition for the compatibility of a gravitational effective field theory in AdS with a dual holographic description in terms of a family of large-$N$ CFTs. Using large-$N$ factorization of correlation functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Nikolay Bobev , Hynek Paul , Filippo Revello

The structure and dynamics of an n-particle system are described with coupled nonlinear Heisenberg's commutator equations where the nonlinear terms are generated by the two-body interaction that excites the reference vacuum via…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 M Tomaselli , L. C. Liu , T. Kuehl , W. Noertershaeuser , D. Ursescu , S. Fritzsche

A key insight of the bootstrap approach to cosmological correlations is the fact that all correlators of slow-roll inflation can be reduced to a unique building block---the four-point function of conformally coupled scalars, arising from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Daniel Baumann , Carlos Duaso Pueyo , Austin Joyce , Hayden Lee , Guilherme L. Pimentel

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 discuss aspects of the holographic description of crunching AdS cosmologies. We argue that crunching FRW models with hyperbolic spatial sections are dual to semiclassical condensates in deformed de Sitter CFTs. De Sitter-invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-30 J. L. F. Barbon , E. Rabinovici

We analyze the computation of $n$-point correlation functions in de Sitter spacetime, including loop corrections, using the wavefunction of the universe approach. This method consists of two stages employing distinct Feynman rules. First,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-26 Javier Huenupi , Ellie Hughes , Gonzalo A. Palma , Spyros Sypsas

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