Infrared stability of de Sitter QFT: Results at all orders
Creators
- 1. University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (United States)
Description
We show that the Hartle-Hawking vacuum for any theory of interacting massive scalars on a fixed de Sitter background is both perturbatively well defined and stable in the IR. Correlation functions in this state may be computed on the Euclidean section and Wick rotated to Lorentz signature. The results are manifestly de Sitter-invariant and contain only the familiar UV singularities. More importantly, the connected parts of all Lorentz-signature correlators decay at large separations of their arguments. Our results apply to all cases in which the free Euclidean vacuum is well defined, including scalars with masses belonging to both the complementary and principal series of SO(D,1). This suggests that interacting Quantum Field Theories in de Sitter--including higher spin fields--are perturbatively IR stable at least when i) the Euclidean vacuum of the zero-coupling theory exists and ii) corresponding Lorentz-signature zero-coupling correlators decay at large separations. This work has significant overlap with a paper by Stefan Hollands, which is being released simultaneously.
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 84
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 044040-044040.15
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 43083218
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; COUPLING; DE SITTER SPACE; EUCLIDEAN SPACE; MASS; PARTICLE DECAY; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SINGULARITY; SPIN; STABILITY
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DECAY; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; RIEMANN SPACE; SPACE
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- Notes
- (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics