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Late-time Structure of the Bunch-Davies De Sitter Wavefunction

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We examine the late time behavior of the Bunch-Davies wavefunction for interacting light fields in a de Sitter background. We use perturbative techniques developed in the framework of AdS/CFT, and analytically continue to compute tree and loop level contributions to the Bunch-Davies wavefunction. We consider self-interacting scalars of general mass, but focus especially on the massless and conformally coupled cases. We show that certain contributions grow logarithmically in conformal time both at tree and loop level. We also consider gauge fields and gravitons. The four-dimensional Fefferman-Graham expansion of classical asymptotically de Sitter solutions is used to show that the wavefunction contains no logarithmic growth in the pure graviton sector at tree level. Finally, assuming a holographic relation between the wavefunction and the partition function of a conformal field theory, we interpret the logarithmic growths in the language of conformal field theory.

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De Sitter Momentum Space

hep-th · 2026-01-21 · unverdicted · novelty 8.0

A Kontorovitch-Lebedev-Fourier momentum space is constructed for de Sitter QFT where the dS frequency labels unitary representations, making equations algebraic and propagators simple like in flat space.

Medicine show: A Calogero model with principal series states

hep-th · 2025-07-23 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

A deformed Calogero model accommodates unitary principal series states of sl(2,R) via operator domain changes, preserving unitarity and invariance while altering integrability, with solutions for N=2 and 3.

M\"obius randomness in the Hartle-Hawking state

hep-th · 2025-05-05 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

The Hartle-Hawking state for toroidal quantum cosmologies is expressed in the Langlands decomposition as a sum over zeta zeros whose near-singularity dynamics follow the Hilbert-Pólya Hamiltonian and as a Möbius average of CFT partition functions.

Correlators are simpler than wavefunctions

hep-th · 2025-12-29 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Equal-time correlators are simpler than wavefunctions because full-spacetime integration of propagators eliminates certain poles and yields a vanishing first subleading term in every Laurent expansion around poles.

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  • De Sitter Momentum Space hep-th · 2026-01-21 · unverdicted · none · ref 24 · internal anchor

    A Kontorovitch-Lebedev-Fourier momentum space is constructed for de Sitter QFT where the dS frequency labels unitary representations, making equations algebraic and propagators simple like in flat space.

  • Medicine show: A Calogero model with principal series states hep-th · 2025-07-23 · unverdicted · none · ref 12 · internal anchor

    A deformed Calogero model accommodates unitary principal series states of sl(2,R) via operator domain changes, preserving unitarity and invariance while altering integrability, with solutions for N=2 and 3.

  • M\"obius randomness in the Hartle-Hawking state hep-th · 2025-05-05 · unverdicted · none · ref 22 · internal anchor

    The Hartle-Hawking state for toroidal quantum cosmologies is expressed in the Langlands decomposition as a sum over zeta zeros whose near-singularity dynamics follow the Hilbert-Pólya Hamiltonian and as a Möbius average of CFT partition functions.

  • Beyond Discontinuities: Cosmological WFCs from the Supersymmetric Orthogonal Grassmannian hep-th · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 36

    N=2 supersymmetry augments the orthogonal Grassmannian formula for wave function coefficients with a kinematic prefactor to capture the full WFC for conserved currents.

  • Correlators are simpler than wavefunctions hep-th · 2025-12-29 · unverdicted · none · ref 3 · internal anchor

    Equal-time correlators are simpler than wavefunctions because full-spacetime integration of propagators eliminates certain poles and yields a vanishing first subleading term in every Laurent expansion around poles.

  • A Match Made in Heaven: Linking Observables in Inflationary Cosmology hep-th · 2025-05-21 · unverdicted · none · ref 100 · internal anchor

    In dynamical Chern-Simons inflation the parity-odd trispectrum is a double copy of the mixed bispectrum and parity-odd power spectrum via a prior factorization formula.