Differential Equations for Massive Correlators
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| author | Baumann, Daniel Joyce, Austin Lee, Hayden Vaziri, Kamran Salehi |
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| contents | We uncover a combinatorial structure governing the differential equations satisfied by wavefunction coefficients of scalar fields with generic masses in de Sitter space. Using an integral representation of the massive mode functions, we express the Feynman integrals underlying cosmological correlators as twisted integrals of rational functions. In this formulation, the integrals belong to a finite set of master integrals obeying a first-order system of differential equations, which can be derived efficiently in the time-integral representation. We show that these equations admit a simple graphical description in terms of graph tubings, which encode the couplings among basis functions and the evolution of singularities. This structure provides an efficient algorithm to derive the differential equations, and a boundary-centric perspective on massive cosmological correlators in which their analytic structure emerges from underlying combinatorial data. As an illustration, we solve the system in the limits of small and large masses. |
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| spellingShingle | Differential Equations for Massive Correlators Baumann, Daniel Joyce, Austin Lee, Hayden Vaziri, Kamran Salehi High Energy Physics - Theory We uncover a combinatorial structure governing the differential equations satisfied by wavefunction coefficients of scalar fields with generic masses in de Sitter space. Using an integral representation of the massive mode functions, we express the Feynman integrals underlying cosmological correlators as twisted integrals of rational functions. In this formulation, the integrals belong to a finite set of master integrals obeying a first-order system of differential equations, which can be derived efficiently in the time-integral representation. We show that these equations admit a simple graphical description in terms of graph tubings, which encode the couplings among basis functions and the evolution of singularities. This structure provides an efficient algorithm to derive the differential equations, and a boundary-centric perspective on massive cosmological correlators in which their analytic structure emerges from underlying combinatorial data. As an illustration, we solve the system in the limits of small and large masses. |
| title | Differential Equations for Massive Correlators |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08658 |