Probing de Sitter from the horizon
High Energy Physics - Theory
2023-06-22 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
In a QFT on de Sitter background, one can study correlators between fields pushed to the future and past horizons of a comoving observer. This is a neat probe of the physics in the observer's causal diamond (known as the static patch). We use this observable to give a generalization of the quasinormal spectrum in interacting theories, and to connect it to the spectral density that appears in the K\"all\'en-Lehmann expansion of dS correlators. We also introduce a finite-temperature effective field theory consisting of free bulk fields coupled to a boundary. In matching it to the low frequency expansion of correlators, we find positivity constraints on the EFT parameters following from unitarity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2211.11672,
title = {Probing de Sitter from the horizon},
author = {Mehrdad Mirbabayi and Flavio Riccardi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11672},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
24 pages, 3 figures