Abstract
We study an extension of quasi-single field model of inflation containing multiple semi-heavy isocurvaton fields using the Schwinger–Keldysh mechanism. We calculate the amplitudes and the shapes of the bispectrum and the trispectrum. We show that the diagrammatic approach associated with the Schwinger–Keldysh mechanism simplifies the analysis considerably compared to standard in-in formalism. This method is helpful to study the spectroscopy of masses and couplings of light and semi-heavy fields during inflation.
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1 Introduction
Inflation theory is one of the pioneering models in describing the initial evolutions of the Universe. This model is able to shed light on how large cosmic structures are formed. It is also in accordance with cosmological observations. We should draw attention to this point that the dynamics of inflation theory and how it starts still remains a mystery [1,2,3,4,5,6]. After more than three decades of extensive investigations, the inflationary paradigm is considered to be a corner stone of the standard model of cosmology, in addition to solving the flatness, the horizon and the relic problems [2, 3, 5, 6]. In addition, inflation is needed in order to predict the correct behavior of primordial fluctuations and a Universe albeit with an almost nearly scale-invariant density power spectrum [7,8,9,10,11,12], as well as with the correct quantity of tensor perturbations [13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23]. One of the most important duties for cosmologists is an introduction of various models for inflation, then examining the validity of the predictions made and adapting them with observational data. In fact there are two main methods that one able to obtain the fulfillment of the inflationary prototype. In one side, one can consider a modification of the geometrical sector leads to a modified general relativity behavior that allows for inflationary solutions [24,25,26,27,28]. The most well known proposal in this method is the Starobinsky inflation [3]. In the other procedure one can introduce new forms of matter which is able to drive inflation as well. In this approach one usually considers a canonical scalar field, assuming it to take large values [29] or small values [30, 31], a phantom field [32,33,34,35], a tachyon field [36,37,38], or other models including k-inflation [39, 40] and ghost inflation [41] etc. One can put the latter type of above models in a general set namely single-field inflation model. The physics of single-field model is well investigated [42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80]; however, some results about inflationary predictions, originated from observational data, might not be accounted for cosmic evolutions regarding only single-field models, therefore based on the following results multifield models are afforded with priority. In other word, multifield models of inflation are in a good agreement with the results originated from Planck data [81, 82]. In multifield models for instance the inflation can be driven by two fields instead of one field. In this scenario to investigate quantum fluctuations and the effects of anisotropy of temperature observed in CMB only a linear combination was sufficient. But, examining the production of isocurvature perturbations and other cases in this veins asks for non-linear combination. In this mode, you can divide the field space into two directions, including inflationary direction and isocurvature one. Similar to what that has done in related literature, we are about to investigate a model in which one direction is related to light field so-called inflaton and other directions related to heavy masses within masses around Hubble parameters. We call this model in its resemblance to quasi-single field, quasi-single multifields (QSMF) inflation. one can find relevant calculations due to quasi-single field model in more details in references [43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50, 52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64, 78, 79]. Among the reasons that we can justify the existence of multiple model, we can refer to high energy (specifically on the ground of string theory) as well as non-Gaussianity [43, 83,84,85,86]. In fact, super gravity and string theory related to inflation, we can realize that the field acquires the massive background within Hubble’s parameters. It is therefore justifiable if one or several semi heavy fields similar to that light field so as to make inflation more plausible. On the other hand, non-Gaussianity is one of the predictions has made by inflation theory. Investigating the size and shape of this quantity is to a great extend can help us in predicting the models which generalize its ability to observe and is the major task of inflation theory. Investigating bispectrum, especially trispectrum based on in-in formulation is conducted comprehensively in recent works and articles about single-field models. Furthermore, following this model, author in [52] has conducted multifield that contains abstruse mathematics. Besides this conventional calculating methods, reference author’s [78] used diagrammatic method and some methods based on Schwinger–Keldysh (SK) formalism [87,88,89] which greatly reduces the amount of computation and gives the same results for many different cases. In this veins, we want to develop the mentioned items based on this new formulation and divide it into multifields [52] and make a comparison with the aforementioned results. As can seen from this type of interaction related to this action, in conventional computing especially trispectrum is way beyond and sometimes it will be divergent for asymptotic states, therefore, the diagrammatic method could be efficient and economical for this model. So, with development of the aforementioned models (perhaps), introducing quantitatively some new concepts, specifically drawing new diagrams, we aim at investigating the size and shape of a non-Gaussianity in a QSMF model.
This paper is organized as follows: In Sect. 2, we will reintroduce the main rules based on SK formalism and also the diagrammatic and propagators will be expressed as well. In Sect. 3 we shall try to explain how the diagrammatic method, for QSMF, leads to tidy results for three-point and four-point correlation functions of primordial scalar perturbations. Sect. 3.2 can be considered as a good example to show the increasing of amount of non-Gaussianity in QSMF inflation comparing quasi-single one. For more investigation and also to see the power of the diagrammatic method Sect. 4 will express the trispectra for QSMF model. At last, Sect. 5 is devoted to conclusion and discussions.
2 Diagrammatic rules and mixed propagator
Herewith, briefly, we supply the explanation for diagrams and some rules due to them.
In this section following the method introduced in [78, 79] for quasi-single field inflation, but, regarding the QSMF inflationary regime we want to review briefly the SK formalism and propagators. The diagrammatic approach based on in-in formalism is reviewed in [78, 79] as well. Additionally, it can be showed that the diagrammatic method presented in [78, 79] is very close to the usual Feynman rules in diagrammatic method, except that the space and the time are treated the same, and that here the model contains two types of propagators introduced by either \(+\) or −. Accordingly, as it was mentioned in [79] we know the internal vertex in the diagrams is associated to conserved three-momentum and also an integration of time, and to consider the effects of all interactions appearing in the Lagrangian one should sum over diagrams for all vertices with all possible types of them. To do this end, one has to transform the spatial directions but not the temporal one, by virtue of Fourier transformation. Hence, the propagator for a general scalar field \(\varphi \) would depends on the time variables of both ends, together with the three-momentum it carries. To receive the propagator, we can use the Fourier-decomposing to the scalar field \(\varphi \) based on the related mode function \(u(\tau ,k)\), viz.
where \(\tau \) is the conformal time, b and \(b^{\dag }\) are annihilation and creation operators respectively. Thence the evolution equation can be rewritten in terms of \(u(\tau ,k)\). Accordingly, for the mode function \(u(\tau ,k)\) with mass m one has
in which the scale factor is introduced as
Considering the early Universe conditions, the solution of the above equation can be worked out as
where \(\text {H}_\nu ^{(1)}(z)\) is the Hankel function of the first kind. When the mass tends to zero, \(m=0\), the mode function could be obtained as
To determine the definitions of the tree level propagators we can consider the following two-point functions, \(\varGamma _{pn}\), [78, 79], namely
where pn refers to ±. Now by regarding different choices for p, n indices, obviously there are four types of propagators. For example, the pp-type propagator can be worked out as,
Now, to solve above equation and also to clarifying the concept of interaction in the both quasi-single field and QSMF let us introducing two types of Lagrangian as follows
here \({\mathscr {L}}_0\) refers free part and \({\mathscr {L}}_\text {int}\) indicates the interaction terms. According to above discussions, the term \({\mathscr {L}}_0\) contains all quadratic terms in terms of \(\varphi \) and all remaining terms could be put in \({\mathscr {L}}_\text {int}\) one. As it will be seen, this latter contains a rich physics and leads to very important predictions about non-Gaussianity as well. To complete this brief review, considering concepts risen from (effective) quantum field theory and by following our main reference [79] we can define the generating functional \(Z[J_p J_n]\) as
Beside, by taking functional derivative and considering general amplitude
at last the four mentioned propagators could be obtained as follows
here
where \(\varTheta (z)\) is the step function. To calculate the required three-point function of \(\delta \phi \) with intermediate exchange of \(\delta \sigma \) one would regard the propagators (9) and the mode functions (3) or (4), and follow the diagrammatic rules as reviewed in [78, 79]. Based on diagrammatic rules were presented in Chen et al. [78], the three-momentum related to the self interacting cases could be summarized as bellow, Also from Fig. 1 it is realized that the external points are distinguished by little squares, while the shaded dots in each vertex means that it is related to two different types of propagators. The black circles refer to the plus propagators and the minus propagators indicated by white circles, and one should sum over all possible states. Accordingly, Fig. 1 actually represents the sum of 16 different diagrams since we have 4 shaded circles. Albeit one should keep in mind that each black circle is complex conjugate of white one and vice versa. This fact dramatically decreases the amount of calculations, the calculation can be simplified by noting to the repetitive structure on the left-hand side of Fig. 1, this approach completely explained in [78, 79].
3 Application to QSMF inflation
In this section, we consider QSMF Inflation [52], by following quasi-single field model [43, 44, 78, 79], as an example to show how the diagrammatic method leads to relatively compact results compared to standard in-in formalism for three-point and four-point correlation functions of primordial scalar perturbations. As explained in aforementioned sections, the QSMF Inflation in general refers to the inflation scenarios with two or more spectator fields of mass around Hubble scale which are coupled kinetically to the inflaton, light field beside the internal interactions. To do so, we consider the following action with a slightly curved inflation trajectory described by three real scalar fields \(\theta \), \(\sigma _{1}\) and \(\sigma _{2}\),
where \(V_\text {sr}(\theta )\) is an arbitrary slow-roll potential, while \(V(\sigma )\) is a potential such that \(\sigma \) obtains a classical constant background \(\sigma _0\). After expanding the fields around their classical background \(\theta _0\) and \(\sigma _0\), the Lagrangian for the fluctuation field has the following form,
where
and
Where we have defined \(\delta \phi =(\widetilde{R }+\sigma _{01}+\sigma _{02})\delta \theta \). The first term of the above Lagrangian can be justified as free part \({\mathscr {L}}_0\), with a massless scalar \(\delta \phi \) and two massive scalar fields \(\delta \sigma \) of mass functions \(m_1^2=V''(\sigma _{01})-\dot{\theta }_0^2\), and \(m_2^2=V''(\sigma _{02})-\dot{\theta }_0^2\). In \({\mathscr {L}}_1\), we have interactions with two-point derivative mixing between \(\delta \phi \) and \(\delta \sigma \), with coupling strength \(\lambda _{2j}=2\dot{\theta }_0\), as well as self-interactions of \(\delta \sigma \), with couplings \(\lambda _{3j}=V'''(\sigma _{0j})\), \({\varLambda }_{31}\equiv 3\frac{\partial }{\partial \sigma _2}(\frac{\partial ^2}{\partial ^2 \sigma _1}V)\) and \({\varLambda }_{32}\equiv 3\frac{\partial }{\partial \sigma _1}(\frac{\partial ^2}{\partial ^2 \sigma _2}V)\). In a same procedure, for \({\mathscr {L}}_2\) we can write \(\lambda _{4j}=V^{(4)}(\sigma _{0j})\), \({\varLambda }_{41}\equiv 4\frac{\partial }{\partial \sigma _2}(\frac{\partial ^3}{\partial ^3 \sigma _1}V)\), \({\varLambda }_{42}\equiv 4\frac{\partial }{\partial \sigma _1}(\frac{\partial ^3}{\partial ^3 \sigma _2}V)\) and \(\tilde{\varLambda }_{4j}\equiv 6(\frac{\partial ^2}{\partial ^2 \sigma _1}(\frac{\partial ^2}{\partial ^2 \sigma _2}V)\), In above equations \(V^{(4)}=V''''\). Our main mean to extend the \({\mathscr {L}}_\text {cl}\) up to 4th order is to see the effects of extra massive fields on the behaviour of bispectrum and especially trispectrum in QSMF proposal. Additionally, we should exceed the primary orders in leading terms to see obviously the effects of SK diagrammatic approach on decreasing the amount of calculations. But at first let us warm up by computing the power spectrum and then the corrections, due to the extra massive fields, will be eye-catching. After that, we shall calculate both bispectram and trispectrum as well, for more detail one can see [78, 79]. Accordingly, before any computation of various correlation functions we want to study the evaluation of a mixed propagator for at hand QSMF model in more details next subsection.
3.1 Mixed propagator in QSMF model
Whereas a special type of interacting terms appears in different places in our investigation so following [78, 79] we are going to introduce this special case as mixed propagator. In fact for the QSMF inflation model we shall calculate the contribution of interaction of both massive fields with inflaton and therefore the following objects can be drawn.
Figures 2, 3 and 4 could be considered as an equivalent for two point function \(\langle \delta \sigma _j\delta \phi \rangle \), in which \(\delta \phi \) refers the values of scalar field perturbations in present era. Now for massive and light fields we should use their own propagators and therefore for example the propagator of \(\delta \sigma _j\) can be denoted by \(D_j(k;\tau _1,\tau _2)\) and the propagator of \(\delta \phi \) by \(G(k;\tau _1,\tau _2)\) see Figs. 5 and 6. Accordingly
where \(z\equiv -k\tau \), and \(I_\pm (z)\) are expressed by,
where \(\epsilon \) is a small constant. After some algebra for the above integral one obtains
where \(f^\pm _{{\nu _j}}(z)\) is defined by,
In the \(z\rightarrow +\infty \) limit of hypergeometric function, by virtue of the asymptotic behavior
where
and \(\mathscr {C}_{{\nu _j}}\) is a z-independent coefficient, given by
in which for \(\epsilon \rightarrow 0\) limit the UV convergence will be resulted.
Using the diagrammatic rules, we can write down the corresponding expression immediately,
where \(\mathscr {P}({{\nu _j}})\) is the following integral and can be carried out completely as was done in [46],
and here the function \(\varXi ({{\nu _j}})\) is defined to be,
and \(\psi ^{(1)}(z)\equiv {\mathrm {d}}^2\log \varGamma (z)/{\mathrm {d}}z^2\) is well know PolyGamma function.
From Figs. 7, 8 and 9 it is understood that the effects of extra fields in QSMF inflation increase the amount of \(\mathscr {P}({{\nu _j}})\) comparing with quasi-single field model. Albeit we should emphasise that our result has a good agreement, maybe trivially, with the calculations in canonical in-in formalism were done by [52].
3.2 Bispectrum
To calculate bispectrum and trispectrum, now we look at the higher order interactions [77]. Following [52, 78] and by virtue of the Eqs. (23) and (24) and this fact that R can be considered as a cutoff it could be realized that the leading portions to the three-point function are of order \(\lambda _2^3\lambda _3^{}\) and \({\lambda _{2j}^2 \lambda _{2l} \varLambda _{3j,l}^{}}\). To see how this suitable method actually does work, we can consider the discussion brought in Sect. 2. Accordingly, by means of the rules have indicated in [61, 78, 79] and also considering the mixed propagator originating from the Lagrangian 12 we have the diagrams 10, 11, 12 and 13. From these Figs., i.e. 10, 11, 12 and 13, it is realized that diagrammatic in–in formalism has more advantages compared to the ordinary in–in formalism. One of this advantages is that the amount of calculations and integrations are dramatically reduced. In fact, each one of the the above diagrams itself contains 16 diagrams which by virtue of the conjugation rules one only needs to consider these general cases and then sum over all possible states. Another difference between QSMF model and quasi-single field, beside self interaction terms, is the appearance of the interaction terms associated with the massive fields. These extra effects enhances non-Gaussianity so it can be used observationally to distinguish between QSMF and quasi-single field scenarios. We have
and
where \(j, l =1~or~ 2\) and it should be kept in mind when \(j=1(2)\) then \(l=2(1)\). To calculate the integrals in (23) and (24) instead of a four-layer integral in the canonical in-in formalism of propagators one needs to calculate only an one-layer integral [78, 79] . To do so one can introduce the dimensionless shape function \(S(k_1,k_2,k_3)\) as
Here \(\zeta \) refers the curvature perturbation, which can be expressed as \(\zeta =-H\delta \phi /\dot{\phi }_0\), and \(P_\zeta =H^2/(8\pi ^2M_{\text {Pl}}^2\epsilon )\) is the well-known power spectrum related to the curvature perturbation. Following [78], to isolate the clock signal from the bispectrum we rewrite the expansion of (23) and (24) in \(k_3/k_1\rightarrow 0\) limit and then by virtue of (25) one obtains
and
where we would redefine \({{\nu _j}}=\mathrm {i}\widetilde{{\nu _j} }\). It is realized that if one considers \(m>3H/2\) limit, then \(\widetilde{\nu _j }\) could be treated as a real part of equation. Accordingly, for the case at hand the coefficients \(s_\pm (\widetilde{\nu j })\) are expressed as
In the squeezed limit to show the periodic behaviour of \(S(k_1,k_2,k_3)\), we can rewrite it in the following form [78]
where
Here we wrote only the pure interacting parts and for mixed propagators one can repeat a same procedure as well. The Figs. 14, 15, 16 and 17 are related to the shape function appeared in Eq. (32). In these shapes we consider \(P_2=\frac{k_2}{k_1}\) and \(P_3=\frac{k_3}{k_1}\). From these figures different limits based on different values of \(\nu \) can be worked out.
4 Trispectrua
The main purpose of this section is to calculate the leading four point function of the massless field in QSMF inflation. In other words the main idea for this calculation returns to calculating the trispectrum in multifid models and viewing the effects of such extra terms on amount of non-Gausianities. As we saw in bispectrum and powerspectrum modifications we expect that the mentioned extra effects should be appeared for trispectrum explicitly. Following [79], we can use, instead of \(\delta \phi \), the curvature perturbation \(\zeta =-H\delta \phi /\dot{\phi }_0\) modes to parameterize the expectation values and receive the following relation for the shape function \(T(\mathbf k_1,\mathbf k_2,\mathbf k_3,\mathbf k_4)\) as
where \(K=k_1+k_2+k_3+k_4\). To consider the leading portions of four-point function we have to consider both the self interactions and the interaction between different types of semi-massive fields. In the following we want to calculate explicitly the trispectrum for QSMF inflation by virtue of diagrammatic version of SK formalism. In fact we are going to find a suitable expression for the shape function [79]. We should emphasise here that, two types of diagrams related to four-point function instead of one, comparing to the three-point function, must be considered. By virtue of the Lagrangian expansion in Eq. (12), obviously seen that we have terms for leading four-point function diagrams. But this is not all the story and we should take care about portions of mixed interacting terms in different channels of four-point function. In other words, in QSMF inflation beside the self interacting terms the effects of interacting between quasi-massive fields have so important role. To show what we mean one can take look into the diagrams appeared in Figs. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26. Let’s explain in a bit more the details of these figures. In Figs. 18, 19, 23 and 24 we only see the pure self interacting portion of interactions of \(\delta \sigma _{j}\). And the other remnant figures, i.e. Figs. 20, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 27, refer to the mixed interacting parts related to \(\delta \sigma _{1}\) and \(\delta \sigma _{2}\). So immediately one can realize that when we speak about the advantages of diagrammatic SK formulation against the normal complicated integration method what we mean!. One can use only one diagram and so one integration processing instead of 16 ones. Following aforementioned sections, another interesting part of our investigation considering the trispectrum goes back to different channels of these diagrams namely u, t and s channels [78, 79].
The expression for this diagram is very simple, and it is similar to the case in bispectrum (23). Now we are able to calculate the necessary steps to obtain the shape function for the quartic coupling. To do so we can write down the expectation values as
On the other hand, the s-channel diagram with two cubic-vertices can be written down as follows,
where \(k_s\equiv |\mathbf k_1+\mathbf k_2|\). Additionally, we have defined,
Now by substitution \((2\leftrightarrow 3, s\rightarrow t)\) and \((2\leftrightarrow 4, s\rightarrow u)\), respectively, the expressions for t and u-channels could be attained. From the above results, we can find the shape function T defined in (34) as,
where \(t_{cj}\) and \(t_{sj}\) are,
and by virtue of the permutations rules we can write down \(t_t\) and \(t_u\) as well [78]. Now to calculate the contribution of mixed propagators, and therefore related trispectum, one should repeat this procedure for coefficients of order \({\varLambda }_{41}\equiv 4\frac{\partial }{\partial \sigma _2}(\frac{\partial ^3}{\partial ^3 \sigma _1}V)\), \({\varLambda }_{42}\equiv 4\frac{\partial }{\partial \sigma _1}(\frac{\partial ^3}{\partial ^3 \sigma _2}V)\) and \(\tilde{\varLambda }_{4j}\equiv 6(\frac{\partial ^2}{\partial ^2 \sigma _1}(\frac{\partial ^2}{\partial ^2 \sigma _2}V))\). Beside this we have to consider the results of mixed interacting portions related to the bispectrum section [56, 59]. For example we present here some of mixed integrals as follows
and
In the squeezed and collapsed limits the oscillatory signals again, like in the bispectrum section can begenerated. For instance when we consider the \(k_1/K\rightarrow 0\) for triangle limit in self interactions the Eq. 38 reduces to
and \(t_R=\text {Re}(t_+ + t_-)\) and \(t_I=\text {Im}(t_- - t_+)\). Where
these integrals based on different channels are expressed as follows
To calculate Eq. (44) we should consider \(\nu _j\) purely imaginary quantity [79]. For the mixed interaction, we can repeat the same procedure.
5 Conclusions
The aim of this study was to calculate the leading order of bispectrum and trispectrum in an extended version of the quasi-single field model of inflation namely QSMF inflation. One expects that observable non-Gaussianity can be generated in multiple field models which can be tested observationally. Probing non-Gaussianity can bring models of multiple fields inflation in contact to observation. Following [52] and [78, 79] we explicitly have calculated different expectation values for QSMF model namely power spectrum , bispectrum and trispectrum. In point of fact, our results showed that the SK diagrammatic formalism has some advantages compared to the usual in-in formalism. For instance, it dramatically reduces the number of calculations and complication of working out the results. The more interesting but complicated part of this calculation, in comparison to the quasi-single filed, was appearing some extra terms beside the self-interaction parts, because of introducing an extra quasi-massive field. In fact, in the quasi-single field inflation most important terms are whose that merely deal with self-interaction and other remnant terms can be eliminated. In QSMF the story is completely different; what we mean goes back to the appearance of some extra mixed interacting terms due to the interaction between both quasi-massive fields and they played an important role in our calculations. As a consequence, it was expected that the amount of non-Gaussianity should show an increase in amount. So by virtue of SK diagrammatic rules, we tried out to check the accuracy of this claim in more details. To do so, at first we had to add some new diagrammatic rules to recognize the difference between interacting terms due to different presented fields. By looking at Figs. 7, 8 and 9 it will be realized that the amount of power spectrum in QSMF explicitly showed an increase. Additionally, if one makes a comparison between QSMF and quasi-single field models immediately observes that the non-Gaussianities have undergone countable changes. For instance, if one considers the equations of shape function in [78, 79] and comparing with the corresponding equations in this work one finds out that the amounts of non-Gaussianity have a precious increasing in modules. Besides this, the prediction of quantum clocks could be concluded again. Consequently, we emphasize again that diagrammatic method dramatically decreased the amounts of perplexing calculations in term of calculation of the bispectrum and especially trispectrum. And finally, it was obviously seen that our results have good agreement with previous literature [52] and [78, 79].
Data Availability Statement
This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited. [Authors’ comment: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.]
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The author would like to thank H. Firouzjahi for his collaboration during all stages of this work. He also is grateful IPM for their hospitality and support in part. He is also grateful ICTP, during Summer School 2018, to give him constructive ideas about inflation and primordial fluctuations. He appreciates G. Ellis, A. Weltamn and UCT to arrange his short visit of there and good discussions about primordial universe. His thanks to his wife E. Avirdi for her patient during our stay in South Africa.
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Sheikhahmadi, H. Schwinger–Keldysh mechanism in extended quasi-single field inflation. Eur. Phys. J. C 79, 451 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6969-z
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