Statistical Fluctuations as Primordial Correlators in the CMB: Finite Chemical Potential Thermodynamics

arXiv:2609.24998 · astro-ph.CO, cond-mat.stat-mech, gr-qc, hep-ph, hep-th · Submitted 2026-09-21 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.CO, cond-mat.stat-mech, gr-qc, hep-ph, hep-th

Submitted: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-21

Comments: 24 pages + References; 3 figures

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

Terminology

• Benchmark — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Non-Gaussianity — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bispectrum — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Universality Class — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Covariance Propagation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Scaling Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Cosmological perturbations from statistical thermal fluctuations
• Thermal Fluctuations and Bouncing Cosmologies
• String Gas Cosmology: Progress and Problems
• Thermal Inflation and the Moduli Problem
• Phase transitions during Cyclic-Inflation and Non-gaussianity
• The curvature perturbation generated by thermal fluctuations during thermal inflation
• Bouncing Cosmologies: Progress and Problems
• Could thermal fluctuations seed cosmic structure?
• Producing a Scale-Invariant Spectrum of Perturbations in a Hagedorn Phase of String Cosmology
• Non-perturbative Gravity, Hagedorn Bounce & CMB
• Thermal fluctuations in loop cosmology
• Warm Inflation
• Scalar perturbation spectra from warm inflation
• Warm Inflation and its Microphysical Basis
• Warm Little Inflaton
• Warm Inflation with the Standard Model
• Warm Inflation with Pseudo-scalar Couplings
• The General Primordial Cosmic Perturbation
• Large-scale curvature and entropy perturbations for multiple interacting fluids
• Cosmological perturbations

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