Cosmological correlators for Bogoliubov initial states

Abstract We consider late-time correlators in de Sitter (dS) space for initial states related to the Bunch-Davies vacuum by a Bogoliubov transformation. We propose to study such late-time correlators by reformulating them in the familiar language of Witten diagrams in Euclidean anti-de Sitter space...

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Main Authors: Alistair J. Chopping, Charlotte Sleight, Massimo Taronna
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Published: SpringerOpen 2024-09-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2024)152
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description Abstract We consider late-time correlators in de Sitter (dS) space for initial states related to the Bunch-Davies vacuum by a Bogoliubov transformation. We propose to study such late-time correlators by reformulating them in the familiar language of Witten diagrams in Euclidean anti-de Sitter space (EAdS), showing that they can be perturbatively re-cast in terms of corresponding dS boundary correlators in the Bunch-Davies vacuum and in turn, Witten diagrams in EAdS. Unlike the standard relationship between late-time correlators in the Bunch-Davies vacuum and EAdS Witten diagrams, this involves points on the upper and lower sheet of the EAdS hyperboloid which account for antipodal singularities of the two-point functions. Such Bogoliubov states include an infinite one parameter family of de Sitter invariant vacua as a special case, where the late-time correlators are constrained by conformal Ward identities. In momentum space, it is well known that their late-time correlators exhibit singularities in collinear (“folded”) momentum configurations. We give a position space interpretation of such solutions to the conformal Ward identities, where in embedding space they can be generated from the solution without collinear singularities by application of the antipodal map. We also discuss the operator product expansion (OPE) limit of late-time correlators in a generic dS invariant vacuum. Many results are derived using the Mellin space representation of late-time correlators, which in this work we extend to accommodate generic dS invariant vacua.
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spelling doaj-art-7684db9471fe4e33879912015b5dbf8f2025-08-20T02:20:45ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792024-09-012024914910.1007/JHEP09(2024)152Cosmological correlators for Bogoliubov initial statesAlistair J. Chopping0Charlotte Sleight1Massimo Taronna2Centre for Particle Theory and Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham UniversityCentre for Particle Theory and Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham UniversityDipartimento di Fisica “Ettore Pancini”, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico IIAbstract We consider late-time correlators in de Sitter (dS) space for initial states related to the Bunch-Davies vacuum by a Bogoliubov transformation. We propose to study such late-time correlators by reformulating them in the familiar language of Witten diagrams in Euclidean anti-de Sitter space (EAdS), showing that they can be perturbatively re-cast in terms of corresponding dS boundary correlators in the Bunch-Davies vacuum and in turn, Witten diagrams in EAdS. Unlike the standard relationship between late-time correlators in the Bunch-Davies vacuum and EAdS Witten diagrams, this involves points on the upper and lower sheet of the EAdS hyperboloid which account for antipodal singularities of the two-point functions. Such Bogoliubov states include an infinite one parameter family of de Sitter invariant vacua as a special case, where the late-time correlators are constrained by conformal Ward identities. In momentum space, it is well known that their late-time correlators exhibit singularities in collinear (“folded”) momentum configurations. We give a position space interpretation of such solutions to the conformal Ward identities, where in embedding space they can be generated from the solution without collinear singularities by application of the antipodal map. We also discuss the operator product expansion (OPE) limit of late-time correlators in a generic dS invariant vacuum. Many results are derived using the Mellin space representation of late-time correlators, which in this work we extend to accommodate generic dS invariant vacua.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2024)152AdS-CFT Correspondencede Sitter spaceScale and Conformal Symmetries
spellingShingle Alistair J. Chopping
Charlotte Sleight
Massimo Taronna
Cosmological correlators for Bogoliubov initial states
Journal of High Energy Physics
AdS-CFT Correspondence
de Sitter space
Scale and Conformal Symmetries
title Cosmological correlators for Bogoliubov initial states
title_full Cosmological correlators for Bogoliubov initial states
title_fullStr Cosmological correlators for Bogoliubov initial states
title_full_unstemmed Cosmological correlators for Bogoliubov initial states
title_short Cosmological correlators for Bogoliubov initial states
title_sort cosmological correlators for bogoliubov initial states
topic AdS-CFT Correspondence
de Sitter space
Scale and Conformal Symmetries
url https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2024)152
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