Feynman rules for stochastic inflationary correlators

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/05/046zbMATH Open1492.83082arXiv2002.03402OpenAlexW3005227130MaRDI QIDQ5069145FDOQ5069145

Authors: Marios Bounakis, Gerasimos I. Rigopoulos 

Publication date: 8 April 2022

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

Abstract: We elaborate on the functional integral describing the stochastic dynamics of a spectator field during inflation, comparing its diagrammatic expansion to that obtained directly from a perturbative solution of the corresponding Langevin equation. We state Feynman rules for computing arbitrary temporal $n$-point functions and perform some illustrative computations for a $lambdaph{i}^4$ interaction, paying attention to the role played by a functional Jacobian determinant in the path integral. We also briefly consider the case when the field contributes to the expansion rate, making the noise multiplicative, which introduces additional vertices.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03402

zbMATH Keywords

inflationphysics of the early universequantum field theory on curved space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Jacobian problem (14R15) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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