Amplitudes meet cosmology: A (scalar) primer

P Benincasa - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2022 - World Scientific
Here, we review the most recent progress in our understanding of quantum mechanical
observables in cosmology in the perturbative regime. It relies on an approach that considers …

Lecture notes on interacting quantum fields in de Sitter space

ET Akhmedov - International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2014 - World Scientific
We discuss peculiarities of quantum fields in de Sitter (dS) space on the example of the self-
interacting massive real scalar, minimally coupled to the gravity background. Nonconformal …

Snowmass white paper: the cosmological bootstrap

D Baumann, D Green, A Joyce, E Pajer… - SciPost Physics …, 2024 - scipost.org
This white paper summarizes recent progress in the cosmological bootstrap, an approach to
the study of the statistics of primordial fluctuations from consistency with unitarity, locality and …

Analyticity and unitarity for cosmological correlators

L Di Pietro, V Gorbenko, S Komatsu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We study the fundamentals of quantum field theory on a rigid de Sitter space. We
show that the perturbative expansion of late-time correlation functions to all orders can be …

Soft de Sitter effective theory

T Cohen, D Green - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract Calculating the quantum evolution of a de Sitter universe on superhorizon scales is
notoriously difficult. To address this challenge, we introduce the Soft de Sitter Effective …

Stochastic inflation at NNLO

T Cohen, D Green, A Premkumar… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Stochastic Inflation is an important framework for understanding the physics of de
Sitter space and the phenomenology of inflation. In the leading approximation, this approach …

The discreet charm of the discrete series in dS2

D Anninos, T Anous, B Pethybridge… - Journal of Physics A …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We study quantum field theories placed on a two-dimensional de Sitter spacetime (dS 2)
with an eye on the group-theoretic organization of single and multi-particle states. We …

Instability of global de Sitter space to particle creation

PR Anderson, E Mottola - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
We show that global de Sitter space is unstable to particle creation, even for a massive free
field theory with no self-interactions. The O (4, 1) de Sitter invariant state is a definite phase …

Characters of different secular effects in various patches of de Sitter space

ET Akhmedov, U Moschella, FK Popov - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
There are at least three different types of secular effects in the two-point correlation functions
in scalar quantum field theories in de Sitter space-time. The first one is specific to de Sitter …

Quantum vacuum instability of “eternal” de Sitter space

PR Anderson, E Mottola - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
The Euclidean or Bunch-Davies O (4, 1) invariant state for quantum fields in global de Sitter
space is shown to be unstable to small perturbations, even for a massive free field with no …