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@article{Grall:2020:10.1007/jhep11(2020)097,
author = {Grall, T and Jazayeri, S and Stefanyszyn, D},
doi = {10.1007/jhep11(2020)097},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics},
title = {The cosmological phonon: symmetries and amplitudes on sub-horizon scales},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2020)097},
volume = {2020},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - <jats:title>A<jats:sc>bstract</jats:sc>                     </jats:title><jats:p>In contrast to massless spinning particles, scalars are not heavily constrained by unitarity and locality. Off-shell, no gauge symmetries are required to write down manifestly local theories, while on-shell consistent factorisation is trivial. Instead a useful classification scheme for scalars is based on the symmetries they can non-linearly realise. Motivated by the breaking of Lorentz boosts in cosmology, in this paper we classify the possible symmetries of a shift-symmetric scalar that is assumed to non-linearly realise Lorentz boosts as, for example, in the EFT of inflation. Our classification method is algebraic; guided by the coset construction and inverse Higgs constraints. We rediscover some known phonon theories within the superfluid and galileid classes, and discover a new galileid theory which we call the <jats:italic>extended galileid</jats:italic>. Generic galileids correspond to the broken phase of galileon scalar EFTs and our extended galileids correspond to special subsets where each galileon coupling is fixed by an additional symmetry. We discuss the broken phase of theories that also admit a perturbation theory around Poincaré invariant vacua and we show that the so-called exceptional EFTs, the DBI scalar and special galileon, do not admit such a broken phase. Concentrating on DBI we provide a detailed account of this showing that the scattering amplitudes are secretly Poincaré invariant when the theory is expanded around the superfluid background used in the EFT of inflation. We point out that DBI is an exception to the common lore that the residue of the total energy pole of cosmological correlators is proportional to the amplitude. We also discuss the inevitability of poles in 2 <jats:italic>→</jats:italic> 2 scattering amplitudes when boost are spontaneously broken meaning that such theories d
AU  - Grall,T
AU  - Jazayeri,S
AU  - Stefanyszyn,D
DO  - 10.1007/jhep11(2020)097
PY  - 2020///
TI  - The cosmological phonon: symmetries and amplitudes on sub-horizon scales
T2  - Journal of High Energy Physics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2020)097
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2020)097
VL  - 2020
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