The cosmological bootstrap: inflationary correlators from symmetries and singularities

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)105zbMath1436.85001arXiv1811.00024OpenAlexW3018406284MaRDI QIDQ780772

Daniel Baumann, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Guilherme L. Pimentel, Hayden Lee

Publication date: 15 July 2020

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00024

zbMATH Keywords

models of quantum gravityspace-time symmetriescosmology of theories beyond the SMeffective field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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