24–28 Aug 2026
Leiden University
Europe/Zurich timezone

An open effective field theory of inflation with dynamical gravity

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20m
Gorlaeus gebouw (Leiden University)

Gorlaeus gebouw

Leiden University

Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden
Talk Inflation / Primordial Perturbations

Speaker

Perseas Christodoulidis (Ewha Womans Universtity)

Description

We construct a gravitational open extension of the effective field theory of inflation in the Schwinger-Keldysh framework. While physical symmetries allow many open operators in the Schwinger-Keldysh action, most of them overconstrain the equations of motion, yielding inconsistent dynamics. We identify the minimal open operators compatible with propagating scalar and tensor modes and build the gravitational action, recovering known dissipative models such as warm inflation. We also briefly discuss how stochastic inflation fits into this program.

Other topic / keywords: EFT

Author

Perseas Christodoulidis (Ewha Womans Universtity)

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