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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.

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@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}
}

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24 pages, 3 figures

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