Holographic predictions for cosmological 3-point functions
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| Publication date | 2012 |
| Journal | The Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | Issue number | 2012 | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 91 |
| Number of pages | 44 |
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| Abstract |
We present the holographic predictions for cosmological 3-point correlators, involving both scalar and tensor modes, for a universe which started in a non-geometric holographic phase. Holographic formulae relate the cosmological 3-point functions to stress tensor correlation functions of a holographically dual three-dimensional non-gravitational QFT. We compute these correlators at 1-loop order for a theory containing massless scalars, fermions and gauge fields, and present an extensive analysis of the constraints due to Ward identities showing that they uniquely determine the correlators up to a few constants. We define shapes for all cosmological bispectra and compare the holographic shapes to the slow-roll ones, finding that some are distinguishable while others, perhaps surprisingly, are not. In particular, for three gravitons, we are able to recover the slow-roll shapes exactly.
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| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2012)091 |
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