Microcausality without Lorentz invariance

30.04.2025 11:30 – 12:30

I will describe how causality implies certain non-perturbative analyticity and exponential boundedness conditions on correlators of relativistic QFTs, in a mixed (t,k) representation. I will then discuss their implications for correlators in Lorentz-breaking backgrounds, including finite-density states and cosmological spacetimes, and show how they can be used to derive a positivity condition on inflationary theories. Along the way, I will compare with the case of S-matrix positivity in flat space Lorentz-invariant theories.

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Bâtiment: Ecole de Physique

Room 234

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