Large-distance behaviour of the massless vector two-point function in de Sitter spacetime
Abstract
We study the long-distance behaviour of the massless vector propagator in (n)-dimensional de Sitter spacetime, where . Specifically, we consider the massless limit of the vector propagator in the Stueckelberg theory, which is an extension of Proca theory, with an additional gauge-fixing term. We work to leading order in the de Sitter-invariant distance to show that, in the large limit, this propagator tends to a gauge dependent constant, where the gauge worked in is described by the Stueckelberg parameter . In the Landau gauge, where , this constant is found to be 0. This result is in agreement with the 4 dimensional case discussed by Youssef.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1802.00687,
title = {Large-distance behaviour of the massless vector two-point function in de Sitter spacetime},
author = {Nicola Rendell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00687},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
14 pages, no figures, to appear in a Special Issue of the IJMPD on Selected Papers of the III Amazonian Symposium on Physics