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Feynman Rules for Stochastic Inflationary Correlators

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-06-02 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We elaborate on the functional integral describing the stochastic dynamics of a spectator field during inflation, comparing its diagrammatic expansion to that obtained directly from a perturbative solution of the corresponding Langevin equation. We state Feynman rules for computing arbitrary temporal nn-point functions and perform some illustrative computations for a λϕ4\lambda\phi^4 interaction, paying attention to the role played by a functional Jacobian determinant in the path integral. We also briefly consider the case when the field contributes to the expansion rate, making the noise multiplicative, which introduces additional vertices.

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@article{arxiv.2002.03402,
  title  = {Feynman Rules for Stochastic Inflationary Correlators},
  author = {Marios Bounakis and Gerasimos Rigopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.03402},
  year   = {2020}
}

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30 pages

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