Leading loops in cosmological correlators
From MaRDI portal
Publication:6183369
Abstract: Cosmological correlators from inflation are often generated at tree level and hence loop contributions are bounded to be small corrections by perturbativity. Here we discuss a scenario where this is not the case. Recently, it has been shown that for any number of scalar fields of any mass, the parity-odd trispectrum of a massless scalar must vanish in the limit of exact scale invariance due to unitarity and the choice of initial state. By carefully handling UV-divergences, we show that the one-loop contribution is non-vanishing and hence leading. Surprisingly, the one-loop parity-odd trispectrum is simply a rational function of kinematics, which we compute explicitly in a series of models, including single-clock inflation. Although the loop contribution is the leading term in the parity-odd sector, its signal-to-noise ratio is typically bounded from above by that of a corresponding tree-level parity-even trispectrum, unless instrumental noise and systematics for the two observables differ. Furthermore, we identify a series of loop contributions to the wavefunction that cancel exactly when computing correlators, suggesting a more general phenomenon.
Recommendations
- Parity violation in the scalar trispectrum: no-go theorems and yes-go examples
- Bootstrapping one-loop inflation correlators with the spectral decomposition
- On the one-loop corrections to inflation. II: The consistency relation
- Precision calculation of inflation correlators at one loop
- Inflation correlators at the one-loop order: nonanalyticity, factorization, cutting rule, and OPE
Cites work
- A differential representation of cosmological wavefunctions
- Bootstrapping one-loop inflation correlators with the spectral decomposition
- Brownian Motion of a Quantum Oscillator
- Building a boostless bootstrap for the bispectrum
- Cutting cosmological correlators
- From amplitudes to contact cosmological correlators
- From locality and unitarity to cosmological correlators
- Graviton non-Gaussianities and parity violation in the EFT of inflation
- Inflation correlators at the one-loop order: nonanalyticity, factorization, cutting rule, and OPE
- Inflation in motion: unitarity constraints in effective field theories with (spontaneously) broken Lorentz symmetry
- Large spin-2 signals at the cosmological collider
- Linking the singularities of cosmological correlators
- Mass Singularities of Feynman Amplitudes
- Observable quantum loop effects in the sky
- On graviton non-gaussianities during inflation
- On loops in inflation
- Parity violation in graviton non-gaussianity
- Parity violation in the scalar trispectrum: no-go theorems and yes-go examples
- Parity-odd and even trispectrum from axion inflation
- Precision calculation of inflation correlators at one loop
- Schwinger-Keldysh diagrammatics for primordial perturbations
- Starting the universe: stable violation of the null energy condition and non-standard cosmologies
- Tensor non-Gaussianity in chiral scalar-tensor theories of gravity
- The analytic wavefunction
- The cosmological bootstrap: inflationary correlators from symmetries and singularities
- The cosmological optical theorem
- The graviton four-point function in de Sitter space
Cited in
(12)- From amplitudes to analytic wavefunctions
- Non-perturbative wavefunction of the universe in inflation with (resonant) features
- Inflation correlators with multiple massive exchanges
- Parity violation in the scalar trispectrum: no-go theorems and yes-go examples
- Analytic results for loop-level momentum space Witten diagrams
- Bispectrum at 1-loop in the effective field theory of inflation
- The in-out formalism for in-in correlators
- A de Sitter \(S\)-matrix from amputated cosmological correlators
- The open effective field theory of inflation
- Cosmological correlators with double massive exchanges: bootstrap equation and phenomenology
- Cosmological correlators through the looking glass: reality, parity, and factorisation
- The cosmological tree theorem
This page was built for publication: Leading loops in cosmological correlators
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6183369)
