Dimensional regularization of bubble diagrams in de Sitter spacetime

A bstract Correlators of large-scale fluctuations produced during cosmic inflation are major observables of inflationary cosmology. In cosmological collider physics, many interesting correlators are generated through loop processes. However, ultraviolet divergences often appear when computing the loop correlators, and a regularization is required. In this work, Källén-Lehmann representation and dimensional regularization are used to analytically compute various correlators with a bubble loop of massive bulk propagators in de Sitter spacetime. Examples include 4-point and 2-point correlators with 1-loop bubbe exchanges of derivatively coupled massive scalars or massive spin-1 bosons.

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Award: 12275146
• TU
  Tsinghua University
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Award: 2021YFC2203100