English

Correlators, Feynman diagrams, and quantum no-hair in deSitter spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-12-06 v2

Abstract

We provide a parametric representation for position-space Feynman integrals of a massive, self-interacting scalar field in deSitter spacetime, for an arbitrary graph. The expression is given as a multiple contour integral over a kernel whose structure is determined by the set of all trees (or forests) within the graph, and it belongs to a class of generalized hypergeometric functions. We argue from this representation that connected deSitter nn-point vacuum correlation functions have exponential decay for large proper time-separation, and also decay for large spatial separation, to arbitrary orders in perturbation theory. Our results may be viewed as an analog of the so-called cosmic-no-hair theorem in the context of a quantized test scalar field. This work has significant overlap with a paper by Marolf and Morrison, which is being released simultaneously.

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@article{arxiv.1010.5367,
  title  = {Correlators, Feynman diagrams, and quantum no-hair in deSitter spacetime},
  author = {Stefan Hollands},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.5367},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

57 pages, Latex, several figures. v2: more details given on derivation of parametric formula in sec.5, and exponential decay result in sec. 6, references added, figures added, typos removed