Cosmological bootstrap and the analytic wavefunction

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• Mang Hei Gordon Lee (DAMTP)
• Monday 06 February 2023, 13:00-14:00
• CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

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Inflation is the leading paradigm for explaining the origin of primordial fluctuations which seeds the creation of galaxies. These primordial fluctuations are encoded in a cosmological wavefunction. In this talk I will discuss how to compute the wavefunction using the cosmological bootstrap, which is a series of constraints from fundamental physical principles. These include unitarity, which results in the cosmological optical theorem, as well as locality, which results in the manifest locality test. I will also discuss recent progress on understanding the analytic structure of the wavefunction, which paves the way to establishing positivity bounds for cosmology.

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