The Cosmological Optical Theorem

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/04/021zbMath1485.83139arXiv2009.02898OpenAlexW3153236301MaRDI QIDQ5026101

Enrico Pajer, Sadra Jazayeri, Harry Goodhew

Publication date: 7 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02898

zbMATH Keywords

inflationquantum cosmologyphysics of the early universeparticle physics-cosmology connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Nuclear physics (81V35) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15)

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