Published March 15, 1991 | Version v1
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Infrared divergences in de Sitter space

Creators

  • 1. Service d'Astrophysique, CEN Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
  • 2. Institut Henri Poincare, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Universite de Paris VI, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris CEDEX 05, France (France)

Description

Infrared divergences in de Sitter space are considered. It is shown that symmetry breaking is unavoidable only when the infrared divergence is strong enough. The static vacuum has no symmetry breaking despite the presence of an infrared divergence

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, D
Journal Volume
43
Journal Issue
6
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
1892-1895
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
22056987
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
DE SITTER GROUP; ENERGY DENSITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FIELD THEORIES; GALAXIES; GREEN FUNCTION; INFRARED DIVERGENCES; METRICS; MINKOWSKI SPACE; PERTURBATION THEORY; PHASE SPACE; SCALAR FIELDS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; UNIVERSE; VACUUM STATES
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPACE; SYMMETRY GROUPS