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Cosmological Correlators at Finite Coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-02-05 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study finite-coupling effects of QFT on a rigid de Sitter (dS) background taking the O(N)O(N) vector model at large NN as a solvable example. Extending standard large NN techniques to the dS background, we analyze the phase structure and late-time four-point functions. Explicit computations reveal that the spontaneous breaking of continuous symmetries is prohibited due to strong IR effects, akin to flat two-dimensional space. Resumming loop diagrams, we compute the late-time four-point functions of vector fields at large NN, demonstrating that their spectral density is meromorphic in the spectral plane and positive along the principal series. These results offer highly nontrivial checks of unitarity and analyticity for cosmological correlators.

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@article{arxiv.2312.17195,
  title  = {Cosmological Correlators at Finite Coupling},
  author = {Lorenzo Di Pietro and Victor Gorbenko and Shota Komatsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17195},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v2: 26 pages, 3 figures, corrected typos, added references, improved discussion of symmetry breaking

R2 v1 2026-06-28T14:03:58.547Z