Hidden Zeros of the Cosmological Wavefunction
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| author | De, Shounak Paranjape, Shruti Pokraka, Andrzej Spradlin, Marcus Volovich, Anastasia |
| author_facet | De, Shounak Paranjape, Shruti Pokraka, Andrzej Spradlin, Marcus Volovich, Anastasia |
| contents | Motivated by the recent discovery of hidden zeros in particle and string amplitudes, we characterize zeros of individual graph contributions to the cosmological wavefunction of a scalar field theory. We demonstrate that these contributions factorize near these zeros for all tree graphs and provide evidence that this extends to loop graphs as well. We explicitly construct polytopal realizations of the relevant graph associahedra and show that the cosmological zeros have natural geometric and physical interpretations. As a byproduct, we establish an equivalence between the wavefunction coefficients of chain graphs and flat-space Tr$(ϕ^3)$ amplitudes, enabling us to leverage the cosmological zeros to uncover the recently discovered hidden zeros of colored amplitudes. |
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| spellingShingle | Hidden Zeros of the Cosmological Wavefunction De, Shounak Paranjape, Shruti Pokraka, Andrzej Spradlin, Marcus Volovich, Anastasia High Energy Physics - Theory Motivated by the recent discovery of hidden zeros in particle and string amplitudes, we characterize zeros of individual graph contributions to the cosmological wavefunction of a scalar field theory. We demonstrate that these contributions factorize near these zeros for all tree graphs and provide evidence that this extends to loop graphs as well. We explicitly construct polytopal realizations of the relevant graph associahedra and show that the cosmological zeros have natural geometric and physical interpretations. As a byproduct, we establish an equivalence between the wavefunction coefficients of chain graphs and flat-space Tr$(ϕ^3)$ amplitudes, enabling us to leverage the cosmological zeros to uncover the recently discovered hidden zeros of colored amplitudes. |
| title | Hidden Zeros of the Cosmological Wavefunction |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23579 |