Infrared effects in inflationary correlation functions

Abstract

In this article, I briefly review the status of infrared effects which occur when using inflationary models to calculate initial conditions for a subsequent hot, dense plasma phase. Three types of divergence have been identified in the literature: secular, "time-dependent" logarithms, which grow with time spent outside the horizon; "box-cutoff" logarithms, which encode a dependence on the infrared cutoff when calculating in a finite-sized box; and "quantum" logarithms, which depend on the ratio of a scale characterizing new physics to the scale of whatever process is under consideration, and whose interpretation is the same as conventional field theory. I review the calculations in which these divergences appear, and discuss the methods which have been developed to deal with them.

Invited review for focus section of Classical & Quantum Gravity on nonlinear and nongaussian perturbation theory. Some improvements compared to version which will appear in CQG, especially in Sec. 2.3. 30 pages + references.

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