Inflation and conformal symmetry

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• Guilherme Pimentel (DAMTP)
• Monday 12 October 2015, 13:00-14:00
• CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

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Inflationary spacetimes can be approximated by de Sitter space, which enjoys as many isometries as Minkowski space. These isometries are related to the conformal group in a simple fashion. I will show how the assumption of a quasi-de Sitter universe during inflation can constrain certain observables, like non-Gaussianities and so called consistency conditions between tensor and scalar power spectra. The constraints arise from the (weakly broken) conformal symmetry of the wavefunction of the Universe.

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