Laplace Space for Cosmological Correlators

Abstract

Deep inside the horizon, every cosmological mode oscillates as a flat-space plane wave. A Laplace transform turns this fact into a general method: it resolves each curved-space mode into a superposition of plane waves dressed by a kernel that encodes the spacetime geometry, field content and dynamics, collapsing the time integrals onto flat-space ones. This provides simple diagrammatic rules that turn cosmological correlator diagrams into their flat-space counterparts integrated against Laplace-space kernels. On the paradigmatic massive single exchange, this integral representation makes the energy singularities manifest and evaluates in closed form as a single, rapidly convergent series valid throughout the kinematic domain, with no patching of separate expansions. The Laplace approach sheds conceptual and computational light on cosmological correlators in virtually any theory of the early universe.