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Large-distance behaviour of the graviton two-point function in de Sitter spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It is known that the graviton two-point function for the de Sitter invariant "Euclidean" vacuum in a physical gauge grows logarithmically with distance in spatially-flat de Sitter spacetime. We show that this logarithmic behaviour is a gauge artifact by explicitly demonstrating that the same behaviour can be reproduced by a pure-gauge two-point function.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0004079,
  title  = {Large-distance behaviour of the graviton two-point function in de Sitter spacetime},
  author = {A. Higuchi and S. S. Kouris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0004079},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

19 pages, no figures, misprints and minor errors corrected