On the primordial correlation of gravitons with gauge fields

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/03/054MaRDI QIDQ5099218zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rajeev Kumar Jain, P. Jishnu Sai, Martin S. Sloth

Publication date 31 August 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10887

zbMATH Keywords

inflationnon-Gaussianityphysics of the early universeprimordial magnetic fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Measures (Gaussian, cylindrical, etc.) on manifolds of maps (58D20) Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH) (62M10) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We calculate the primordial correlation of gravitons with an abelian gauge field non-minimally coupled through a dynamical dilaton field or a volume moduli during inflation in the early universe. In particular, we compute the cross-correlation of a tensor mode with two gauge field modes and the corresponding correlation functions for the associated magnetic and electric fields using the in-in formalism. Moreover, using semi-classical methods, we show that the three-point cross-correlation functions satisfy new consistency relations (soft theorems) in the squeezed limit. Our findings exhibit a complete agreement of the full in-in results with the new consistency relations. An interesting consequence of our scenario is the possibility of a novel correlation of the primordial tensor mode with the primordial curvature perturbation induced by higher order quantum gravity corrections. The anisotropic background created by long wavelength gauge field modes makes this correlation function non-vanishing. Finally, we discuss how these three-point correlation functions are imprinted on cosmological observables today and the applications to scenarios of inflationary magnetogenesis.

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