The cosmological bootstrap: inflationary correlators from symmetries and singularities
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Publication:780772
DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)105zbMATH Open1436.85001arXiv1811.00024OpenAlexW3018406284MaRDI QIDQ780772FDOQ780772
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)
Abstract: Scattering amplitudes at weak coupling are highly constrained by Lorentz invariance, locality and unitarity, and depend on model details only through coupling constants and particle content. In this paper, we develop an understanding of inflationary correlators which parallels that of flat-space scattering amplitudes. Specifically, we study slow-roll inflation with weak couplings to extra massive particles, for which all correlators are controlled by an approximate conformal symmetry on the boundary of the spacetime. After classifying all possible contact terms in de Sitter space, we derive an analytic expression for the four-point function of conformally coupled scalars mediated by the tree-level exchange of massive scalars. Conformal symmetry implies that the correlator satisfies a pair of differential equations with respect to spatial momenta, encoding bulk time evolution in purely boundary terms. The absence of unphysical singularities completely fixes this correlator. A spin-raising operator relates it to the correlators associated with the exchange of particles with spin, while weight-shifting operators map it to the four-point function of massless scalars. We explain how these de Sitter four-point functions can be perturbed to obtain inflationary three-point functions. We reproduce many classic results in the literature and provide a complete classification of all inflationary three- and four-point functions arising from weakly broken conformal symmetry. The inflationary bispectrum associated with the exchange of particles with arbitrary spin is completely characterized by the soft limit of the simplest scalar-exchange four-point function of conformally coupled scalars and a series of contact terms. Finally, we demonstrate that the inflationary correlators contain flat-space scattering amplitudes via a suitable analytic continuation of the external momenta.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00024
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