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The Cosmological $δ$-shift

Carolina Figueiredo·Jiajie Mei·Yuyu Mo·Francisco Vazão
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We consider the extension of the $δ$-shift connecting Tr$(ϕ^3)$ and pion amplitudes to observables in cosmology. We start in flat-space and explain how one can extract the pion wavefunction and correlators from those of Tr$(ϕ^3)$ theory, via a simple kinematic deformation. As opposed to the amplitude, the $δ$-shift for the wavefunction is no longer a linear deformation on the kinematics since the wavefunction depends on magnitudes rather than the squares of momenta. We "linearize" this deformation by using the frequency representation - allowing us to recast the contribution from any graph as a sum over residues. We then show how this construction extends to de Sitter, and find that, remarkably, in the frequency representation, the pion de Sitter wavefunction and correlators can be formulated in precisely the same way as in flat-space. Amongst other things, this unified formulation reveals a simple universal soft-limit for flat-space and de Sitter, where, in the soft-limit, the wavefunction turns into a sum of wavefunctions in a mixed theory of pions and scalars.

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Carolina Figueiredo, Jiajie Mei, Yuyu Mo, Francisco Vazão. 2026-10-06. The Cosmological $δ$-shift. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08904

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