Late-time structure of the bunch-Davies FRW wavefunction

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2016)103MaRDI QIDQ1636347zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George Konstantinidis, Raghu Mahajan, Edgar Shaghoulian

Publication date 12 June 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06163

zbMATH Keywords

gauge-gravity correspondenceeffective field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In this short note we organize a perturbation theory for the Bunch-Davies wavefunction in flat, accelerating cosmologies. The calculational technique avoids the in-in formalism and instead uses an analytic continuation from Euclidean signature. We will consider both massless and conformally coupled self-interacting scalars. These calculations explicitly illustrate two facts. The first is that IR divergences get sharper as the acceleration slows. The second is that UV-divergent contact terms in the Euclidean computation can contribute to the absolute value of the wavefunction in Lorentzian signature. Here UV divergent refers to terms involving inverse powers of the radial cutoff in the Euclidean computation. In Lorentzian signature such terms encode physical time dependence of the wavefunction.

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