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Spinor-helicity variables for cosmological horizons in de Sitter space

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We consider massless fields of arbitrary spin in de Sitter space. We introduce a spinor-helicity formalism, which encodes the field data on a cosmological horizon. These variables reduce the free… Click to show full abstract

We consider massless fields of arbitrary spin in de Sitter space. We introduce a spinor-helicity formalism, which encodes the field data on a cosmological horizon. These variables reduce the free S-matrix in an observer's causal patch, i.e. the evolution of free fields from one horizon to another, to a simple Fourier transform. We show how this result arises via twistor theory, by decomposing the horizon horizon problem into a pair of (more symmetric) horizon twistor problems.

Keywords: spinor helicity; helicity variables; horizon; sitter space

Journal Title: Physical Review D
Year Published: 2019

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