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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

Significant progress has been made in our understanding of the analytic structure of FRW wavefunction coefficients, facilitated by the development of efficient algorithms to derive the differential equations they satisfy. Moreover, recent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-08 Shounak De , Andrzej Pokraka

It is known that one-loop Feynman integrals possess an algebraic structure encoding some of their analytic properties called the coaction, which can be written in terms of Feynman integrals and their cuts. This diagrammatic coaction, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-16 Samuel Abreu , Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr , Einan Gardi , James Matthew

The diagrammatic coaction encodes the analytic structure of Feynman integrals by mapping any given Feynman diagram into a tensor product of diagrams defined by contractions and cuts of the original diagram. Feynman integrals evaluate to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-04 Einan Gardi , Aris Ioannou

The diagrammatic coaction underpins the analytic structure of Feynman integrals, their cuts and the differential equations they admit. The coaction maps any diagram into a tensor product of its pinches and cuts. These correspond…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-19 Samuel Abreu , Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr , Einan Gardi , James Matthew

This paper presents an evaluation of the wave function coefficients for conformally coupled scalars at both one and two-loop levels at leading order in the coupling constant, in momentum space. We take cues from time-dependent interactions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-06 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Kajal Singh

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 provide a first principle definition of cosmological correlation functions for a large class of scalar toy models in arbitrary FRW cosmologies, in terms of novel geometries we name {\it weighted cosmological polytopes}. Each of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-26 Paolo Benincasa , Gabriele Dian

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

Cosmological correlation functions are central observables in modern cosmology, as they encode properties of the early universe. In this paper, we derive novel canonical differential equations for wavefunction coefficients in power-law FRW…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Mattia Capuano , Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Alessandro Palazio

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

The cosmological polytope and bootstrap programs have revealed interesting connections between positive geometries, modern on-shell methods and bootstrap principles studied in the amplitudes community with the wavefunction of the Universe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-25 Shounak De , Andrzej Pokraka

We study the algebraic and analytic structure of Feynman integrals by proposing an operation that maps an integral into pairs of integrals obtained from a master integrand and a corresponding master contour. This operation is a coaction. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-09 Samuel Abreu , Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr , Einan Gardi

We present a new formula for the coaction of a large class of integrals. When applied to one-loop (cut) Feynman integrals, it can be given a diagrammatic representation purely in terms of pinches and cuts of the edges of the graph. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-16 Samuel Abreu , Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr , Einan Gardi

Cosmological correlators capture the spatial fluctuations imprinted during the earliest episodes of the universe. While they are generally very non-trivial functions of the kinematic variables, they are known to arise as solutions to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-08 Thomas W. Grimm , Arno Hoefnagels , Mick van Vliet

In this paper we explore the mathematical properties of wavefunction coefficients in power-law FRW cosmologies, and establish their relation to cluster algebras. We focus on the particular contributions to the wavefunction coefficient…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Mattia Capuano , Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Alessandro Palazio

Our understanding of quantum field theory rests largely on explicit and controlled calculations in perturbation theory. Because of this, much recent effort has been devoted to improve our grasp of perturbative techniques on cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Aaron Hillman , Enrico Pajer

Cosmological fluctuations retain a memory of the physics that generated them in their spatial correlations. The strength of correlations varies smoothly as a function of external kinematics, which is encoded in differential equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-04 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Daniel Baumann , Aaron Hillman , Austin Joyce , Hayden Lee , Guilherme L. Pimentel

It is well known that Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization often evaluate to functions of hypergeometric type. Inspired by a recent proposal for a coaction on one-loop Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization, we use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Samuel Abreu , Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr , Einan Gardi , James Matthew

In this work we consider the action for a set of complex scalar supermultiplets interacting with the scale factor in the supersymmetric cosmological models. We show that the local conformal supersymmetry leads to a scalar field potential…

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