Enhanced Soft Limits in de Sitter Space

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In flat space, the scattering amplitudes of certain scalar effective field theories exhibit enhanced soft limits due to the presence of hidden symmetries.

• In this paper, we show that this phenomenon extends to wavefunction coefficients in de Sitter space.
• Using a representation in terms of boundary conformal generators acting on contact diagrams, we find that imposing enhanced soft limits fixes the masses and four-point couplings (including curvature corrections) in agreement with Lagrangians recently derived from hidden symmetries.
• Higher-point couplings can then be fixed using a bootstrap procedure which we illustrate at six points.