Classical part of 1-loop tensor power spectrum in de Sitter is IR divergent but cancels with vacuum part, enabling non-perturbative renormalization to extract unaffected physical information.
A Fast Method to Compute Scalar Induced Gravitational Waves on a Lattice with Primordial Non-Gaussianities
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Scalar Induced Gravitational Waves (SIGW) are generated at second order in perturbation theory and to achieve observational relevance, inflationary dynamics must evade the standard slow-roll scenario at small scales, generating large curvature perturbations following strongly non-Gaussian statistics. We propose a method to efficiently compute the SIGW spectrum including arbitrary non-Gaussianities. First, we solve the wave equation adopting semi-analytic methods; this results in an expression involving integrals in Fourier space which are impossible to solve directly on a lattice. We overcome this bottleneck by recasting these integrals as a sum of about 50 convolutions, each of which can be computed efficiently with FFT methods. Finally, the power spectrum is measured directly from the lattice realization. We implement this in FLAN-SIGW, a GPU-accelerated code capable of computing fully non-perturbative, non-Gaussian SIGW spectra in seconds with an error within 10% with modest computational resources. The code is made public at https://github.com/giovannipiccoli99/FLAN-SIGW. In this first implementation, in order to assess the performance of the method, we adopt a standard radiation-dominated background with $w = 1/3$.
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Classical part of 1-loop tensor power spectrum in de Sitter is IR divergent but cancels with vacuum part, enabling non-perturbative renormalization to extract unaffected physical information.