A non-perturbative construction of the de Sitter late-time boundary
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| author | Vaziri, Kamran Salehi |
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| contents | We propose a new approach for constructing the late-time conformal boundary of quantum field theory in de Sitter spacetime. A boundary theory which consists of a continuous family of primary operators residing on unitary irreducible representations, the principal series. These boundary operators exhibit two-point functions that include contact terms alongside standard CFT two-point functions. We introduce a bulk-to-boundary expansion in which a bulk operator, when pushed to the boundary, is represented as an integral over boundary operators. The kernel of this integral is related to the Källén-Lehmann spectral density, and we examine the convergence of the expansion by deriving the spectral density's large dimension limit. Additionally, we derive an inversion formula for the bulk-to-boundary expansion, where, given a bulk theory, the boundary operator content is constructed as an integral of the bulk operator times the bulk-to-boundary propagator. We verify the inversion formula by recovering the boundary two-point function and reproducing perturbation theory. Along the way, we define an operator that generates both the bulk-to-boundary and free bulk-to-bulk propagators from the boundary two-point function, proving to be a powerful tool for simplifying de Sitter diagrams. |
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| spellingShingle | A non-perturbative construction of the de Sitter late-time boundary Vaziri, Kamran Salehi High Energy Physics - Theory We propose a new approach for constructing the late-time conformal boundary of quantum field theory in de Sitter spacetime. A boundary theory which consists of a continuous family of primary operators residing on unitary irreducible representations, the principal series. These boundary operators exhibit two-point functions that include contact terms alongside standard CFT two-point functions. We introduce a bulk-to-boundary expansion in which a bulk operator, when pushed to the boundary, is represented as an integral over boundary operators. The kernel of this integral is related to the Källén-Lehmann spectral density, and we examine the convergence of the expansion by deriving the spectral density's large dimension limit. Additionally, we derive an inversion formula for the bulk-to-boundary expansion, where, given a bulk theory, the boundary operator content is constructed as an integral of the bulk operator times the bulk-to-boundary propagator. We verify the inversion formula by recovering the boundary two-point function and reproducing perturbation theory. Along the way, we define an operator that generates both the bulk-to-boundary and free bulk-to-bulk propagators from the boundary two-point function, proving to be a powerful tool for simplifying de Sitter diagrams. |
| title | A non-perturbative construction of the de Sitter late-time boundary |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00183 |