Late-time structure of the Bunch-Davies de Sitter wavefunction

Dionysios Anninos, Tarek Anous, Daniel Z. Freedman, George Konstantinidis
2015 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics  
We examine the late time behavior of the Bunch-Davies wavefunction for interacting light fields in a de Sitter background. We use perturbative techniques developed in the framework of AdS/CFT, and analytically continue to compute tree and loop level contributions to the Bunch-Davies wavefunction. We consider self-interacting scalars of general mass, but focus especially on the massless and conformally coupled cases. We show that certain contributions grow logarithmically in conformal time both
more » ... t tree and loop level. We also consider gauge fields and gravitons. The four-dimensional Fefferman-Graham expansion of classical asymptotically de Sitter solutions is used to show that the wavefunction contains no logarithmic growth in the pure graviton sector at tree level. Finally, assuming a holographic relation between the wavefunction and the partition function of a conformal field theory, we interpret the logarithmic growths in the language of conformal field theory.
doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2015/11/048 fatcat:d2nocxemcvcrhmpbwnlth4oqfi