Schr\"odinger field theory in curved spacetime: In-In formalism and three-point function for inflationary background

Abstract

We review the Schr\"odinger picture of field theory in curved spacetime and using this formalism, the power spectrum of massive non-interacting, minimally coupled scalars in a fixed de Sitter background is obtained. To calculate the N-point function in Schr\"odinger field theory, the "in-in" formalism is extended in the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe. We compute the three-point function for primordial scalar field fluctuation in the single field inflation by this in-in formalism. The results are the same as the three-point function in the Heisenberg picture.