Symmetry constraints in inflation, -vacua, and the three point function
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Publication:1636679
DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2016)102zbMATH Open1390.83477arXiv1607.08636MaRDI QIDQ1636679FDOQ1636679
Authors: Ashish Shukla, Sandip P. Trivedi, Vikrant Vishal 
Publication date: 12 June 2018
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The Ward identities for conformal symmetries in single field models of inflation are studied in more detail in momentum space. For a class of generalized single field models, where the inflaton action contains arbitrary powers of the scalar and its first derivative, we find that the Ward identities are valid. We also study a one-parameter family of vacua, called -vacua, which preserve conformal invariance in de Sitter space. We find that the Ward identities, upto contact terms, are met for the three point function of a scalar field in the probe approximation in these vacua. Interestingly, the corresponding non-Gaussian term in the wave function does not satisfy the operator product expansion. For scalar perturbations in inflation, in the -vacua, we find that the Ward identities are not satisfied. We argue that this is because the back-reaction on the metric of the full quantum stress tensor has not been self-consistently incorporated. We also present a calculation, drawing on techniques from the AdS/CFT correspondence, for the three point function of scalar perturbations in inflation in the Bunch-Davies vacuum.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08636
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