# Video Library

Since 2002 Perimeter Institute has been recording seminars, conference talks, and public outreach events using video cameras installed in our lecture theatres.  Perimeter now has 7 formal presentation spaces for its many scientific conferences, seminars, workshops and educational outreach activities, all with advanced audio-visual technical capabilities.  Recordings of events in these areas are all available On-Demand from this Video Library and on Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive (PIRSA)PIRSA is a permanent, free, searchable, and citable archive of recorded seminars from relevant bodies in physics. This resource has been partially modelled after Cornell University's arXiv.org.

## Quantum Field Theory II (PHYS 603) - Lecture 1

Monday Nov 01, 2010
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## Effects of decoherence on IR divergence

Saturday Oct 30, 2010
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We propose one way to regularize the fluctuations generated during inflation. We show that, as long as we consider the case that the non-linear interaction acts for a finite duration, observable fluctuations are free from IR divergences not only in the single field models but also in the multi field model.

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## Going beyond de Sitter

Saturday Oct 30, 2010
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De Sitter space is a maximally symmetric space, and any (time dependent) backreaction necessarily breaks the symmetry. On the other hand, the backreaction in FLRW spaces (which, from the cosmological perspective, are more realistic spaces) respects the symmetries of the background space. One could therefore argue that it is more natural to study the backreaction on quasi-de Sitter spaces, and more generally on FLRW spaces. As examples, I will present our results on the one loop (Hubble) effective potential calculation, and the one loop stress energy calculation.

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## Ultraviolet Divergences in Cosmological Correlations

Saturday Oct 30, 2010
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A method is developed for dealing with ultraviolet divergences in calculations of cosmological correlations, which does not depend on dimensional regularization. An extended version of the WKB approximation is used to analyze the divergences in these calculations, and these divergences are controlled by the introduction of Pauli--Villars regulator fields. This approach is illustrated in the theory of a scalar field with arbitrary self-interactions in a fixed flat-space Robertson--Walker metric with arbitrary scale factor $a(t)$.

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## On IR effects in single field inflation

Friday Oct 29, 2010
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## One-loop corrections in slow-roll and in more general theories of inflation

Friday Oct 29, 2010

I will present our work on loop corrections to the power spectrum of curvature fluctuations in single-field inflationary models. We consider both standard slow-roll (where the interactions between gravitons and the scalar are included for the first time) and non-canonical Lagrangians. We show that the tensor modes cannot be neglected since, in some models, they produce one loop contributions with an amplitude that is comparable to the one coming from the scalar sector.

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## Anomalous scaling dimensions and particle decay during inflation

Friday Oct 29, 2010
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I will discuss the emergence of anomalous scaling dimensions for superhorizon fluctuations and the main ideas and concepts of particle decay during inflation, via the resummation of secular terms with the dynamical renormalization group. There are loops, IR effects and (lots of...) issues.

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## Second-Order Relativistic Hydrodynamics

Friday Oct 29, 2010
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Hydrodynamics is the universal theory describing the behavior of fluids when their spacetime variation is on scales longer than any microphysical scale in the fluid. Relativistic hydro has applications in heavy ion collisions and early Universe cosmology, and has seen a surge of interest due to heavy ion experiments and theoretical developments in AdS/CFT. I will explain what second order hydrodynamics is and why it is the minimum theory to study in the relativistic case.

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## Massless fields in Euclidean de Sitter space

Friday Oct 29, 2010
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In theories with light or massless fields, loop diagrams can develop infrared divergences. We demonstrate how these can be resolved for a theory of massless interacting scalar fields in Euclidean de Sitter space. We also comment on applications to the in-in formalism in Lorentzian de Sitter space.

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## Semiclassical approaches to IR issues in quasi de Sitter universes

Friday Oct 29, 2010
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Using simple semiclassical relations it is possible to show that the conventional cosmological correlation functions are affected by significant IR corrections in quasi de Sitter space-times when averaged over very large volumes (in the "large box"). The IR effects apparently imply a breakdown of perturbation theory in the large box on sufficiently long time scales, for example the time between self-reproduction and reheating in chaotic inflation. An interpretation of the apparent breakdown of the perturbative expansion of gravity will also be briefly discussed.

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