Manifestly unitary cosmological perturbation theory

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2023/04/070MaRDI QIDQ6161222zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Logan Thomas

Publication date 5 June 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.15363

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological perturbation theoryinflationphysics of the early universequantum cosmologyWeinberg's perturbation series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Analytic approximation of solutions (perturbation methods, asymptotic methods, series, etc.) of equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G10) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) General questions in astronomy and astrophysics (85A04)

Abstract: The next decade will feature an abundance of novel cosmological data, while many fundamental questions about inflation remain. Given this, there is ample need for maximally efficient calculations, especially in non-standard scenarios for the early Universe. In inflationary cosmology, observables are computed within the framework of in-in perturbation theory. Weinberg introduced a now-widely used re-organization of perturbation theory for in-in calculations. There is a subtle difference in the $iepsilon$ prescriptions of Weinberg's perturbation series with traditional in-in, which could interfere with the projection onto the interacting vacuum. In this work, we show that a small adjustment to Weinberg's perturbation series yields agreement with standard in-in at every order of perturbation theory for commonly studied spins and masses in de Sitter spacetime. We then generalize the result to a large class of cosmological spacetimes, including slow roll spacetimes.

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