A new diagrammatic representation for correlation functions in the in-in formalism

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2013)184zbMATH Open1342.81047arXivhep-th/0611258MaRDI QIDQ737787FDOQ737787

Authors: M. Musso 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we provide an alternative method to compute correlation functions in the in-in formalism, with a modified set of Feynman rules to compute loop corrections. The diagrammatic expansion is based on an iterative solution of the equation of motion for the quantum operators with only retarded propagators, which makes each diagram intrinsically local (whereas in the standard case locality is the result of several cancellations) and endowed with a straightforward physical interpretation. While the final result is strictly equivalent, as a bonus the formulation presented here also contains less graphs than other diagrammatic approaches to in-in correlation functions. Our method is particularly suitable for applications to cosmology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611258

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitycosmology of theories beyond the SMrenormalization regularization and renormalonsspacetime symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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