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@article{Albertini:2024:10.1103/PhysRevD.109.106014,
author = {Albertini, E and Dowker, F and Nasiri, A and Zalel, S},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.109.106014},
journal = {Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology},
title = {In-in correlators and scattering amplitudes on a causal set},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.106014},
volume = {109},
year = {2024}
}
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TY - JOUR
AB - Causal set theory is an approach to quantum gravity in which spacetime is fundamentally discrete at the Planck scale and takes the form of an irregular Lorentzian lattice, or “causal set,” from which continuum spacetime emerges in a large-scale (low-energy) approximation. In this work, we present new developments in the framework of interacting quantum field theory on causal sets. We derive a diagrammatic expansion for in-in correlators in local scalar field theories with finite polynomial interactions. We outline how these same correlators can be computed using the double-path integral, which acts as a generating functional for the in-in correlators. We modify the in-in generating functional to obtain a generating functional for in-out correlators. We define a notion of scattering amplitudes on causal sets with noninteracting past and future regions and verify that they are given by -matrix elements (matrix elements of the time-evolution operator). We describe how these formal developments can be implemented to compute early Universe observables under the assumption that spacetime is fundamentally discrete.
AU - Albertini,E
AU - Dowker,F
AU - Nasiri,A
AU - Zalel,S
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.106014
PY - 2024///
SN - 1550-2368
TI - In-in correlators and scattering amplitudes on a causal set
T2 - Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.106014
UR - https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.106014
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/113054
VL - 109
ER -