9–13 Feb 2026
Bologna
Europe/Rome timezone

Glavan Dražen - Gauge independent logarithms from inflationary gravitons

10 Feb 2026, 15:10
25m
Sala Ulisse (Bologna)

Sala Ulisse

Bologna

Palazzo Poggi, Via Zamboni 31 e 33 - Bologna

Description

In flat space the S-matrix is a gauge-independent observable in perturbative quantum gravity. The gauge-independence owes to the source and observer corrections that need to be included. I will discuss the generalization of this procedure to de Sitter space, without taking the asymptotic limits of the S-matrix, and recent work demonstrating gauge-independence of the construction. This is a step towards constructing renormalized one-loop quantum-gravitational observables in de Sitter.

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