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 …

The cosmological bootstrap: inflationary correlators from symmetries and singularities

N Arkani-Hamed, D Baumann, H Lee… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract Scattering amplitudes at weak coupling are highly constrained by Lorentz
invariance, locality and unitarity, and depend on model details only through coupling …

The cosmological bootstrap: spinning correlators from symmetries and factorization

D Baumann, C Duaso Pueyo, A Joyce, H Lee… - SciPost Physics, 2021 - scipost.org
We extend the cosmological bootstrap to correlators involving massless particles with spin.
In de Sitter space, these correlators are constrained both by symmetries and by locality. In …

Non-Gaussianity as a particle detector

H Lee, D Baumann, GL Pimentel - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We study the imprints of massive particles with spin on cosmological correlators.
Using the framework of the effective field theory of inflation, we classify the couplings of …

The Hilbert space of de Sitter quantum gravity

T Chakraborty, J Chakravarty, V Godet, P Paul… - Journal of High Energy …, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We obtain solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation with positive cosmological
constant for a closed universe in the large-volume limit. We argue that this space of solutions …

On the time evolution of cosmological correlators

S Céspedes, AC Davis, S Melville - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Develo** our understanding of how correlations evolve during inflation is crucial
if we are to extract information about the early Universe from our late-time observables. To …

On the decoherence of primordial gravitons

S Ning, CM Sou, Y Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract It is well-known that the primordial scalar curvature and tensor perturbations, ζ and
γ ij, are conserved on super-horizon scales in minimal inflation models. However, their wave …

Partially massless fields during inflation

D Baumann, G Goon, H Lee, GL Pimentel - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract The representation theory of de Sitter space allows for a category of partially
massless particles which have no flat space analog, but could have existed during inflation …

Modave lectures on de Sitter space & holography

DA Galante - 2023 - inspirehep.net
These lecture notes provide an overview of different aspects of de Sitter space and their
plausible holographic interpretations. We start with a general description of the classical …

Shapes of gravity: Tensor non-Gaussianity and massive spin-2 fields

G Goon, K Hinterbichler, A Joyce… - Journal of High Energy …, 2019 - Springer
If the graviton is the only high spin particle present during inflation, then the form of the
observable tensor three-point function is fixed by de Sitter symmetry at leading order in slow …