Gauge subtleties and the finiteness of loop corrections beyond slow roll
- Date
- April 3 (Thu) at 14:00 - 15:30, 2025 (JST)
- Speaker
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- Danilo Artigas (JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics Ⅱ, Division of Physics and Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
- Venue
- Language
- English
- Host
- Amaury Micheli
The early universe undergoes a phase of exponential expansion called inflation, under which quantum fluctuations are amplified and later seed cosmological structures. A long-standing question is whether interactions of these quantum fields may significantly affect the n-point statistics of cosmological observables. These corrections are known as loop corrections. Recently, Kristiano and Yokoyama claimed that, in scenarios beyond slow-roll inflation, the one-loop correction of super-Hubble fluctuations could become non-negligible and violate cosmological-perturbation theory. This result is highly debated, and in this talk we will use a non-linear approach known as delta N formalism to evaluate these loop corrections. We find the existence of loop corrections for modes close to the Hubble scale, however, these corrections are quickly suppressed for long-wavelength modes. We also show how the result of Kristiano and Yokoyama may arise when truncating the perturbative expansion, and how this result depends on the chosen gauge.
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