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Enhanced soft limits in de Sitter space

Armstrong, C.; Lipstein, A.; Mei, J.

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C. Armstrong

J. Mei



Abstract

In flat space, the scattering amplitudes of certain scalar effective field theories exhibit enhanced soft limits due to the presence of hidden symmetries. In this paper, we show that this phenomenon extends to wavefunction coefficients in de Sitter space. Using a representation in terms of boundary conformal generators acting on contact diagrams, we find that imposing enhanced soft limits fixes the masses and four-point couplings (including curvature corrections) in agreement with Lagrangians recently derived from hidden symmetries. Higher-point couplings can then be fixed using a bootstrap procedure which we illustrate at six points. We also discuss implications for the double copy in de Sitter space.

Citation

Armstrong, C., Lipstein, A., & Mei, J. (2022). Enhanced soft limits in de Sitter space. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(12), Article 64. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282022%29064

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 29, 2022
Online Publication Date Dec 13, 2022
Publication Date 2022-12
Deposit Date Dec 14, 2022
Publicly Available Date Mar 23, 2023
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Print ISSN 1126-6708
Publisher Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2022
Issue 12
Article Number 64
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282022%29064
Related Public URLs https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02285

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Open Access . This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.





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