Quantum Field Theory Of Cosmological Perturbations Induced By Ultralight Dark Matter

arXiv:2607.27133 · hep-th, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-07-29 · Read on arXiv

Tomislav Prokopec, Marco Vecchioni

hep-th, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-07-29

Comments: 97 pages, 1 figure, 9 Feynman diagrams

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Regularization — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adiabatic Evolution — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Homogeneity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reheating — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid Approach — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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• Planck 2018 results. X. Constraints on inflation
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