Cutting rule on cosmological correlators and its applicationsConfirmed

by Yohei Ema (University of Florida)

Tuesday Mar 17, 2026, 1:00 PM → 2:30 PM America/Toronto

PI/3-394 - Skyroom (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

We derive a cutting rule for equal-time in-in correlators, including cosmological correlators based on Keldysh r/a basis, which decomposes diagrams into fully retarded functions and cut-propagators consisting of Wightman functions. Our derivation relies only on basic assumptions such as unitarity, locality, and the causal structure of the in-in formalism. We apply the cutting rule to simplify the extraction of non-local cosmological collider signals, and prove the absence of one-loop scale-invariant corrections from enhanced small-scale perturbations to superhorizon curvature and tensor perturbations.