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Stochastic Inflation with Interacting Noises

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-04-28 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Stochastic δN\delta N formalism is a powerful tool to calculate the cosmological correlators non-perturbatively. However, it requires the initial data for the amplitude of the noise on the initial flat hypersurface which for a free theory during inflation is fixed to be H2π\frac{H}{2 \pi}. In this work, we study the setups where the underlying theory involves interactions and the stochastic noises inherit these interactions. We extend the stochastic δN\delta N formalism to these setups and rewrite the corresponding Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations in which the QFT corrections in the amplitude of the noises are taken into account. As an example, in the three-phase SR-USR-SR setup which is employed for PBHs formation, the modification in the amplitude of noise is calculated from the one-loop corrections in power spectrum via in-in formalism. We show that in these setups the amplitude of the stochastic noise is modified to H2π(1+ΔPRPR(0))12\frac{H}{2 \pi} \Big(1+ \frac{ \Delta {\cal P}_{\cal R} }{ {\cal P}^{(0)}_{ {\cal R} } }\Big)^{\frac{1}{2}} in which ΔPRPR(0) \frac{\Delta {\cal P}_{\cal R} }{ {\cal P}^{(0)}_{{\cal R} } } is the fractional one-loop correction in power spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.2508.09946,
  title  = {Stochastic Inflation with Interacting Noises},
  author = {Amin Nassiri-Rad and Haidar Sheikhahmadi and Hassan Firouzjahi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.09946},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

27 pages, 2 figures; updated to match the JCAP version

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