Conservation of superhorizon curvature perturbations at one loop: Backreaction in the in-in formalism and renormalization
We show that the superhorizon-limit curvature perturbations are conserved at one-loop level in single-field inflation models with a transient nonslow-roll period. We take the spatially flat gauge, where the backreaction plays a crucial role for the conservation of superhorizon curvature perturbations unless the counterterms are tuned. We calculate the backreaction with the in-in formalism. In addition, we explicitly show the renormalization of the UV divergences with the counterterms.
Authors
- Keisuke Inomata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2995-6842)
Institutions
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2025-05-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.111.103504
- Citations
- 8
- Primary Topic
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 9.24
Funders
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science