Published August 15, 1975 | Version v1
Journal article

General-relativistic quantum field theory: An exactly soluble model

  • 1. Department of Astrophisics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, England

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The massive scalar and Dirac fields quantized on a de Sitter background geometry prove to be exactly soluble models in general-relativistic field theory. The Feynman Green's function is computed for both the scalar and Dirac fields. A dimensional regularization procedure applied in coordinate space facilitates the calculation of their respective effective Lagrangians, which describe the vacuum corrections due to closed matter loops. The model is found to be renormalizable. There is no creation of real particle pairs

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Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
12
Journal Issue
4
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
965-974
ISSN
0556-2821

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