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Bounds on EFT's in an expanding Universe

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arxiv 2312.07651 v2 pith:4KPGYDQL submitted 2023-12-12 hep-th astro-ph.CO

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We find bounds on the Wilson coefficients of effective field theories (EFTs) living in a Universe undergoing expansion by requiring that its modes do not propagate further than a minimally coupled photon by a resolvable amount. To do so, we compute the spatial shift suffered by the EFT modes at a fixed time slice within the WKB approximation and the regime of validity of the EFT. We analyze the bounds arising on shift-symmetric scalars and curved space generalizations of Galileons.

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