Derivative interactions during inflation: a systematic approach

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/06/032zbMATH Open1506.83037arXiv2201.05117OpenAlexW4283582105MaRDI QIDQ5099348FDOQ5099348

Authors: Aliakbar Abolhasani, Harry Goodhew 

Publication date: 31 August 2022

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

Abstract: We present a systematic prescription for calculating cosmological correlation functions for models with derivative interactions through the wavefunction of the universe and compare this result with the "in-in" formalism -- canonical approach. The key step in this procedure is to perform the path integral over conjugate momenta after which a straightforward generalisation of Feynman's Rules can be applied. We show that this integral recovers the classical action plus some additional divergent contributions which are necessary to cancel other divergences that arise due to loop diagrams involving time derivatives. As a side project, for the first time, we introduce the "off-shell" version of the in-in formalism that is sometimes more straightforward, especially for the models with derivative coupling. To examine our prescription, as a specific example, we work out the trispectra of the scalar fluctuation in the model with the $lambda{ph{i}^{\prime }}^3$ derivative coupling.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05117

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zbMATH Keywords

inflationquantum cosmologycosmological perturbation theoryphysics of the early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Convergence and divergence of integrals (40A10) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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