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Publications (16)

hep-th2023

Parity Violation from Emergent Non-Locality During Inflation

Sadra Jazayeri, Sébastien Renaux-Petel, Xi Tong +2

Parity violation in the early universe holds great promise for uncovering new physics. In particular, the primordial scalar four-point correlation function is allowed to develop a…

hep-th2026

All Tree-Level Massive Cosmological Correlators via Spectral Gluing

Jonathan Gräfe, Denis Werth

Massive cosmological correlators exhibit a rich hypergeometric structure already at tree level, reflecting the distorted propagation of particles in de Sitter spacetime. In this pa…

astro-ph.CO2025

Reconstructing Primordial Curvature Perturbations via Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves with LISA

Jonas El Gammal, Aya Ghaleb, Gabriele Franciolini +17

Many early universe scenarios predict an enhancement of scalar perturbations at scales currently unconstrained by cosmological probes. These perturbations source gravitational wave…

hep-th2023

Shapes of the Cosmological Low-Speed Collider

Sadra Jazayeri, Sébastien Renaux-Petel, Denis Werth

Massive particles produced during inflation leave specific signatures in soft limits of correlation functions of primordial fluctuations. When the Goldstone boson of broken time tr…

hep-th2024

Cosmological Flow of Primordial Correlators

Denis Werth, Lucas Pinol, Sébastien Renaux-Petel

Correlation functions of primordial density fluctuations provide an exciting probe of the physics governing the earliest moments of our Universe. However, the standard approach to…

hep-th2025

The Exact and Approximate Tales of Boost-Breaking Cosmological Correlators

Zhehan Qin, Sébastien Renaux-Petel, Xi Tong +2

Cosmological correlators offer a remarkable window into the high-energy physics governing Universe's earliest moments, with the tantalising prospect of discovering new particles. H…

astro-ph.CO2025

Primordial Sharp Features through the Nonlinear Regime of Structure Formation

Clément Stahl, Denis Werth, Vivian Poulin

Sudden violations of the slow-roll regime during inflation, a natural prediction of many UV-complete inflationary models, give rise to sharp features in the primordial power spectr…

physics.comp-ph2020

ODEN: A Framework to Solve Ordinary Differential Equations using Artificial Neural Networks

Liam L. H. Lau, Denis Werth

We explore in detail a method to solve ordinary differential equations using feedforward neural networks. We prove a specific loss function, which does not require knowledge of the…

hep-th2024

Spectral Representation of Cosmological Correlators

Denis Werth

Cosmological correlation functions are significantly more complex than their flat-space analogues, such as tree-level scattering amplitudes. While these amplitudes have simple anal…

astro-ph.CO2023

The Cosmological Flow: A Systematic Approach to Primordial Correlators

Lucas Pinol, Sébastien Renaux-Petel, Denis Werth

The time evolution of primordial fluctuations conceals a wealth of insights into the high-energy physics at play during the earliest moments of our Universe, which is ultimately en…

astro-ph.CO2022

No-go Theorem for Scalar-Trispectrum-Induced Gravitational Waves

Sebastian Garcia-Saenz, Lucas Pinol, Sébastien Renaux-Petel +1

We show that the contribution of the primordial trispectrum to the energy density of the scalar-induced stochastic gravitational wave background cannot exceed the one from the scal…

hep-th2026

Kontorovich-Lebedev-Fourier Space for de Sitter Correlators

Nathan Belrhali, Arthur Poisson, Sébastien Renaux-Petel +1

In this work, we build a novel frequency-momentum space for -dimensional de Sitter (dS) correlators from first principles. This construction follows directly from the decomp…

hep-th2026

De Sitter Momentum Space

Nathan Belrhali, Arthur Poisson, Sébastien Renaux-Petel +1

We construct a natural and nonperturbative momentum space for quantum field theory on -dimensional de Sitter (dS) spacetime in the Poincaré slicing, adapted to early Univer…

astro-ph.CO2022

Analytical approximations for curved primordial power spectra

Ayngaran Thavanesan, Denis Werth, Will Handley

We extend the work of Contaldi et al. and derive analytical approximations for primordial power spectra arising from models of inflation which include primordial spatial curvature.…

astro-ph.CO2026

Universal Non-Gaussian Signatures from Transient Instabilities

Shuntaro Aoki, Diederik Roest, Denis Werth

We identify universal signatures in the bispectrum arising from a transient tachyonic instability of entropic fluctuations during inflation, a phenomenon that naturally arises in h…

astro-ph.CO2024

CosmoFlow: Python Package for Cosmological Correlators

Denis Werth, Lucas Pinol, Sébastien Renaux-Petel

Cosmological correlators hold the key to high-energy physics as they probe the earliest moments of our Universe, and conceal hidden mathematical structures. However, even at tree-l…