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- Title
Dynamical constraints on RG flows and cosmology.
- Authors
Baumann, Daniel; Green, Daniel; Hartman, Thomas
- Abstract
Sum rules connecting low-energy observables to high-energy physics are an interesting way to probe the mechanism of inflation and its ultraviolet origin. Unfortunately, such sum rules have proven difficult to study in a cosmological setting. Motivated by this problem, we investigate a precise analogue of inflation in anti-de Sitter spacetime, where it becomes dual to a slow renormalization group flow in the boundary quantum field theory. This dual description provides a firm footing for exploring the constraints of unitarity, analyticity, and causality on the bulk effective field theory. We derive a sum rule that constrains the bulk coupling constants in this theory. In the bulk, the sum rule is related to the speed of radial propagation, while on the boundary, it governs the spreading of nonlocal operators. When the spreading speed approaches the speed of light, the sum rule is saturated, suggesting that the theory becomes free in this limit. We also discuss whether similar results apply to inflation, where an analogous sum rule exists for the propagation speed of inflationary fluctuations.
- Subjects
QUANTUM field theory; RENORMALIZATION group; COUPLING constants; PARTICLE physics; FRIEDMANN equations; SPEED of light
- Publication
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019, Vol 2019, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
1126-6708
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/JHEP12(2019)134