Renormalisation group improvement in the stochastic formalism
Abstract
We investigate compatibility between the stochastic infrared (IR) resummation of light test fields on inflationary spacetimes and renormalisation group running of the ultra-violet (UV) physics. Using the Wilsonian approach, we derive improved stochastic Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations which consistently include the renormalisation group effects. With the exception of stationary solutions, these differ from the naive approach of simply replacing the classical potential in the standard stochastic equations with the renormalisation group improved potential. Using this new formalism, we exemplify the IR dynamics with the Yukawa theory during inflation, illustrating the differences between the consistent implementation of the UV running and the naive approach.
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@article{arxiv.1904.11373,
title = {Renormalisation group improvement in the stochastic formalism},
author = {Robert J. Hardwick and Tommi Markkanen and Sami Nurmi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.11373},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
18 pages, 1 figure, 1 appendix, matches accepted version in JCAP