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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

In this paper we study the cluster algebraic properties of wavefunction coefficients for massless scalar theories in de Sitter cosmology. We show that the symbol of the wavefunction coefficient of the $n$-site path graph $P_n$ obeys a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Mattia Capuano , Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Alessandro Palazio , Yao-Qi Zhang

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

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

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

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

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 present a connection between the physics of cosmological time evolution and the mathematics of positive geometries, roughly analogous to similar connections seen in the context of scattering amplitudes. We consider the wavefunction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-12 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Paolo Benincasa , Alexander Postnikov

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 present a recursive rule for the symbol of perturbative contributions to the vacuum wave function of a conformally coupled scalar in FRW cosmologies. The rule applies exactly for a class of interactions and cosmologies, which contains…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-20 Aaron Hillman

In this paper we propose a holographic duality for classical gravity on a three-dimensional de Sitter space. We first show that a pair of SU$(2)$ Chern-Simons gauge theories reproduces the classical partition function of Einstein gravity on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 Yasuaki Hikida , Tatsuma Nishioka , Tadashi Takayanagi , Yusuke Taki

From any graph $G$ arises a flat space wavefunction, obtained by integrating a product of propagators associated to the vertices and edges of $G$. This function is a key ingredient in the computation of cosmological correlators, and several…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Tyler Dunaisky

We study the coaction of cosmological wavefunction coefficients of conformally coupled scalars in FRW background of a two-site example, which turns out to have an elegant diagrammatic interpretation. We show how the coaction acts on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-27 Yuhan Fu , Jiahao Liu

We propose a worldsheet formula for tree-level correlation functions describing a scalar field with arbitrary mass and quartic self-interaction in de Sitter space, which is a simple model for inflationary cosmology. The correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-21 Humberto Gomez , Renann Lipinski Jusinskas , Arthur Lipstein

We compute the two-point correlation functions for the spin-3 theory in three dimensional (Anti-) de Sitter spacetimes by using holographic renormalisation. For the AdS case, we find results consistent with the general requirements of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-14 Shailesh Lal , Bindusar Sahoo

From the group theoretical point of view, it is proved that the theory of linear conformal gravity should be written in terms of a tensor field of rank-3 and mixed symmetry [Binegar, et al, Phys. Rev. D 27, (1983) 2249]. We obtained such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-10 M. V. Takook , H. Pejhan , M. Reza Tanhayi

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

We study wavefunctions of heavy scalars on de Sitter spacetime and their implications to dS/CFT correspondence. In contrast to light fields in the complementary series, heavy fields in the principal series oscillate outside the cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Hiroshi Isono , Hoiki Madison Liu , Toshifumi Noumi

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

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
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