PIRSA:19110148

Bootstrapping Inflationary Correlators

Lee, H. (2019). Bootstrapping Inflationary Correlators. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/19110148

Lee, Hayden. Bootstrapping Inflationary Correlators. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 26, 2019, https://pirsa.org/19110148 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:19110148,
            doi = {10.48660/19110148},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/19110148},
            author = {Lee, Hayden},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Bootstrapping Inflationary Correlators},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2019},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:19110148 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Hayden Lee

Harvard University

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The central idea of the bootstrap philosophy is to constrain observables directly from consistency conditions alone, bypassing the intricacies of the Lagrangian formalism. In this talk, I will adopt this viewpoint and describe a boundary-centric approach to determine cosmological correlators, following a perspective familiar from the modern studies of scattering amplitudes. Specifically, I will describe the symmetries and singularities of three- and four-point functions in de Sitter space and inflation, and explain how these principles can be used to fully determine the final answer without reference to bulk time evolution. I will also highlight spectroscopic features encoded in these correlators, relevant for the search of primordial non-Gaussianity in future cosmological observations.