- Accepted Paper
Cancellation of one-loop time dependence in superhorizon curvature perturbations from all scales
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 5 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/vzh3-jxpm
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 5 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/vzh3-jxpm
We show the conservation of the superhorizon curvature perturbations at one-loop level in spatially-flat gauge, including contributions from loop wavenumbers on all scales in the decoupling limit, . In contrast to previous works, we do not assume a hierarchy between the wavenumber of the loop integral, , and that of the power spectrum, , and we explicitly include the regime . Taking into account the nonlinear relation between the inflaton fluctuation and the curvature perturbation with the formalism, we show that the apparent time dependence of the one-loop curvature power spectrum cancels once all contributions, including boundary terms, are combined consistently.
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