English

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

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-05-04 v2

Abstract

We study the long-distance behaviour of the massless vector propagator in (n)-dimensional de Sitter spacetime, where n4n \geq 4. 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 ZZ to show that, in the large ZZ limit, this propagator tends to a gauge dependent constant, where the gauge worked in is described by the Stueckelberg parameter ξ\xi. In the Landau gauge, where ξ=0\xi=0, 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

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