Adiabatic regularization for spin-$1$ fields
Abstract
We analyze the adiabatic regularization scheme to renormalize Proca fields in a four-dimensional Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker spacetime. The adiabatic method is well established for scalar and spin- fields, but is not yet fully understood for spin- fields. We give the details of the construction and show that, in the massless limit, the renormalized stress-energy tensor of the Proca field is closely related to that of a minimally coupled scalar field. Our result is in full agreement with other approaches, based on the effective action, which also show a discontinuity in the massless limit. The scalar field can be naturally regarded as a St\"ueckelberg-type field. We also test the consistency of our results in de Sitter space.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2310.11860,
title = {Adiabatic regularization for spin-$1$ fields},
author = {F. Javier Marañón-González and José Navarro-Salas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11860},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
10 pages. V2: minor changes, misprints corrected, matches the published version (Phys. Rev. D)