Cosmological Correlators from Generating Potentials and Projective Geometry
Abstract
We introduce novel scalar generating potentials to compute three and four point cosmological correlators in orthogonal Grassmannian space. These correlators are obtained by applying appropriate directional derivatives on these potentials, combined with helicity-dependent minors. We emphasize that, this is not a spin-raising analog, but a much more powerful construction. The four point generating potential is associated with the geometry of a projective triangle. First-order directional derivatives generate gluon correlator, while the Hessian of the same scalar potential produces the four-graviton correlators, thus realizing a differential double copy. Thus, double copy is a natural consequence of the underlying scalar potential as the origin of the gluon and graviton four point correlators. This framework extends naturally to any spin-s. We exhibit a geometric origin for the gluon colour identities: the projective homogeneity of the scalar potential implies Kleiss-Kuijf identity, while the kinematic Jacobi identity follows as a consequence of the closure of the triangle under directional derivatives. We also uncover a connection between the BCFW bridge deformation of the scalar potential and directional derivatives that produces the spin-s correlator. Thus the generating potential provides a universal geometrical interpretation for any spin-s four point Grassmannian correlator, unlike \cite{Bala:2026lvw} where geometric interpretation was only shown for the gluons.
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BibTeX
@misc{bala2026cosmological,
title = {{Cosmological Correlators from Generating Potentials and Projective Geometry}},
author = {Aswini Bala and Sachin Jain and Deep Mazumdar},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.08915},
eprint = {2610.08915},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08915},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Cosmological Correlators from Generating Potentials and Projective Geometry
AU - Aswini Bala
AU - Sachin Jain
AU - Deep Mazumdar
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/06
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.08915
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08915
AB - We introduce novel scalar generating potentials to compute three and four point cosmological correlators in orthogonal Grassmannian space. These correlators are obtained by applying appropriate directional derivatives on these potentials, combined with helicity-dependent minors. We emphasize that, this is not a spin-raising analog, but a much more powerful construction. The four point generating potential is associated with the geometry of a projective triangle. First-order directional derivatives generate gluon correlator, while the Hessian of the same scalar potential produces the four-graviton correlators, thus realizing a differential double copy. Thus, double copy is a natural consequence of the underlying scalar potential as the origin of the gluon and graviton four point correlators. This framework extends naturally to any spin-s. We exhibit a geometric origin for the gluon colour identities: the projective homogeneity of the scalar potential implies Kleiss-Kuijf identity, while the kinematic Jacobi identity follows as a consequence of the closure of the triangle under directional derivatives. We also uncover a connection between the BCFW bridge deformation of the scalar potential and directional derivatives that produces the spin-s correlator. Thus the generating potential provides a universal geometrical interpretation for any spin-s four point Grassmannian correlator, unlike \cite{Bala:2026lvw} where geometric interpretation was only shown for the gluons.
ER -