7–11 Dec 2020
Palais des Papes, Avignon
Europe/Paris timezone

The 1/N expansion for stochastic fields in de Sitter spacetime

11 Dec 2020, 12:00
20m
Chambre du Trésorier (Palais des Papes, Avignon)

Chambre du Trésorier

Palais des Papes, Avignon

Speaker

Gabriel Moreau (Université de Montpellier)

Description

We propose a 1/N expansion of Starobinsky and Yokoyama’s effective stochastic approach for light quantum fields on superhorizon scales in de Sitter spacetime. We explicitly compute the spectrum and the eigenfunctions of the Fokker-Planck operator for a O(N)-symmetric theory with quartic selfinteraction at leading and next-to-leading orders in this expansion. We obtain simple analytical expressions valid in various nonperturbative regimes in terms of the interaction coupling constant.

Primary author

Gabriel Moreau (Université de Montpellier)

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