Perturbative unitarity bounds on field-space curvature in de Sitter spacetime: purity vs scattering amplitude
arXiv:2507.00850 · doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2026)009
Abstract
We study perturbative unitarity bounds on the field-space curvature in de Sitter spacetime, using the momentum-space entanglement approach recently proposed by Duaso Pueyo, Goodhew, McCulloch, and Pajer. As an illustration, we perform a perturbative computation of the purity in two-scalar models and compare the resulting unitarity bounds with those obtained via a flat space approximation. In particular, we find that perturbative unitarity imposes an upper bound on the field-space curvature of the Hubble scale order, in addition to a bound analogous to the flat space result. This reflects the thermal nature of de Sitter spacetime. We also discuss generalizations to higher-dimensional field spaces.
30 pages, 8 figures; v2: minor revisions; v3: version published in JHEP