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Cosmological Correlators in massless ${\phi}^4$-theory and the Method of Regions

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The calculation of loop corrections to the correlation functions of quantum fields during inflation or in the de~Sitter background presents greater challenges than in flat space due to the more complicated form of the mode functions. While in flat space highly sophisticated approaches to Feynman integrals exist, similar tools still remain to be developed for cosmological correlators. However, usually only their late-time limit is of interest. We introduce the method-of-region expansion for cosmological correlators as a tool to extract the late-time limit, and illustrate it with several examples for the interacting, massless, minimally coupled scalar field in de~Sitter space. In particular, we consider the in-in correlator $\langle\phi^2(\eta,q)\phi(\eta,k_1)\phi(\eta,k_2)\rangle$, whose region structure is relevant to anomalous dimensions and matching coefficients in Soft de Sitter effective theory.

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hep-th · 2026-05-11 · conditional · novelty 7.0

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Unitary and Analytic Renormalisation of Cosmological Correlators

hep-th · 2025-09-02 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Different dimensional regularization schemes agree with each other and with unitarity; new analytic eta regulators simplify the work and fix the imaginary part of one-loop coefficients by the logarithmic running of the real part under scale invariance and Bunch-Davies conditions.

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