Published August 15, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Infrared stability of de Sitter QFT: Results at all orders

  • 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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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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