26–30 May 2025
Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano
Europe/Rome timezone

The role of the counterterms in the conservation of superhorizon curvature perturbations at one loop

Speaker

Keisuke Inomata (Johns Hopkins University)

Description

Recently, several papers have claimed that superhorizon curvature perturbations are not conserved at the one-loop level in single-field inflation models if there is a transient ultra-slow-roll period. In this talk, I point out that the contributions from the counterterms were overlooked in the recent papers. I show that the counterterm contributions play a crucial role in canceling the one-loop power spectrum of superhorizon curvature perturbations in the comoving gauge. This talk will be based on arXiv:2502.12112.

Primary author

Keisuke Inomata (Johns Hopkins University)

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