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de Sitter invariance of the dS graviton vacuum

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-03-22 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The two-point function of linearized gravitons on de Sitter space is infrared divergent in the standard transverse traceless synchronous gauge defined by k=0k=0 cosmological coordinates (also called conformal or Poincare coordinates). We show that this divergence can be removed by adding a linearized diffeomorphism to each mode function; i.e., by an explicit change of gauge. It follows that the graviton vacuum state is well-defined and de Sitter invariant in agreement with various earlier arguments.

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@article{arxiv.1107.2712,
  title  = {de Sitter invariance of the dS graviton vacuum},
  author = {Atsushi Higuchi and Donald Marolf and Ian A. Morrison},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.2712},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages, 1 figure