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 …

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 …

From dS to AdS and back

C Sleight, M Taronna - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We describe in more detail the general relation uncovered in our previous work
between boundary correlators in de Sitter (dS) and in Euclidean anti-de Sitter (EAdS) space …

The cosmological optical theorem

H Goodhew, S Jazayeri, E Pajer - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The unitarity of time evolution, or colloquially the conservation of probability, sits at the heart
of our descriptions of fundamental interactions via quantum field theory. The implications of …

Snowmass white paper: the double copy and its applications

T Adamo, JJM Carrasco, M Carrillo-González… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The double copy is, in essence, a map between scattering amplitudes in a broad variety of
familiar field and string theories. In addition to the mathematically rich intrinsic structure, it …

The cosmological bootstrap: weight-shifting operators and scalar seeds

D Baumann, CD Pueyo, A Joyce, H Lee… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract A key insight of the bootstrap approach to cosmological correlations is the fact that
all correlators of slow-roll inflation can be reduced to a unique building block—the four-point …

Boostless cosmological collider bootstrap

GL Pimentel, DG Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Cosmological correlation functions contain valuable information about the
primordial Universe, with possible signatures of new massive particles at very high energies …

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 …

Cosmological cutting rules

S Melville, E Pajer - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Primordial perturbations in our universe are believed to have a quantum origin,
and can be described by the wavefunction of the universe (or equivalently, cosmological …