Spacetime and higher-spin symmetries in the de Sitter S-matrix
PIRSA ID:
19090026
Series:
Quantum Gravity
Event Type:
Seminar
Scientific Area(s):
Quantum Gravity
End date:
Speaker(s):
- Yasha Neiman, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
I will discuss the problem of an observer's S-matrix in de Sitter space, i.e. the mapping between fields on the initial and final horizons of a de Sitter static patch. I will show how the S-matrix of free massless fields can be packaged in a spinor-helicity language. This involves “cheating” the static patch’s painfully low symmetry, by relating each horizon separately to global, de Sitter-invariant data.
I will then discuss the important special case of higher-spin gravity in de Sitter, and argue that higher-spin symmetry prevents any corrections to the free S-matrix, except in the “soft" sector of zero frequencies.