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We propose a Mellin space approach to the evaluation of late-time momentum-space correlation functions of quantum fields in (d + 1)-dimensional de Sitter space. The Mellin-Barnes representation makes manifest the analytic structure of late-time correlators and, more generally, provides a convenient general d framework for the study of conformal correlators in momentum space. In this work we focus on tree-level correlation functions of general scalars as a prototype, including n-point contact diagrams and 4-point exchanges. For generic scalars, both the contact and exchange diagrams are given by (generalised) Hypergeometric functions, which reduce to existing expressions available in the literature for d = 3 and external scalars which are either simultaneously conformally coupled or massless. This approach can also be used for the perturbative bulk evaluation of momentum space boundary correlators in (d + 1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter space (Witten diagrams).
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Sleight, C. A Mellin space approach to cosmological correlators. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 90 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2020)090
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