Cosmological Correlators Through the Looking Glass

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• David Stefanyszyn (University of Nottingham)
• Monday 25 November 2024, 13:00-14:00
• CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

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We will discuss parity violation in the early universe and show that simple single-field models of inflation cannot produce parity-violating primordial correlations. To achieve such a signal we therefore need to consider more exotic theories with one intriguing option being the inclusion of addition massive spinning states that can decay into light states and leave parity-violating imprints on late-time observables. We will concentrate on the parity-odd trispectrum generated by the tree-level exchange of new fields and show that if these new fields are in the complementary series of de Sitter representations, the trispectrum is factorised into a combination of bispectra and power spectra for general kinematics. This provides a consistency relation between different cosmological observables. 

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