Probing de Sitter from the horizon [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11672


In a QFT on de Sitter background, one can study correlators between fields pushed to the future and past horizons of a comoving observer. This is a neat probe of the physics in the observer’s causal diamond (known as the static patch). We use this observable to give a generalization of the quasinormal spectrum in interacting theories, and to connect it to the spectral density that appears in the K\”all\’en-Lehmann expansion of dS correlators. We also introduce a finite-temperature effective field theory consisting of free bulk fields coupled to a boundary. In matching it to the low frequency expansion of correlators, we find positivity constraints on the EFT parameters following from unitarity.

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M. Mirbabayi and F. Riccardi
Tue, 22 Nov 22
57/83

Comments: 24 pages, 3 figures