Primordial fluctuations in extended Liouville theory /

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Author / Creator:Moore, Wynton E., author.
Imprint:2015.
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015
Description:1 electronic resource (54 pages)
Language:English
Format: E-Resource Dissertations
Local Note:School code: 0330
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773373
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Other authors / contributors:University of Chicago. degree granting institution.
ISBN:9781339320700
Notes:Advisors: Emil J. Martinec Committee members: Edward Blucher; Jeffrey Harvey; Wayne Hu.
Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-05(E), Section: B.
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Summary:Liouville gravity can be used to precisely model features of 3+1 dimensional cosmology in a simplified 1+1d setting. We study primordial fluctuations in a generally covariant extension of Liouville theory, in the context of single field inflation. The scale invariant spectrum of scalar curvature perturbations is exhibited, and their three-point correlation function is computed in the slow roll approximation. We recover Maldacena's consistency relation for the three-point function, which in this context depends on a global shift symmetry of extended Liouville theory.