Resummations for Inflationary Quantum Gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2025-01-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The continual production of gravitons during inflation endows loop corrections with secular logarithms which grow nonperturbatively large during a prolonged period of inflation. The physics behind these effects is reviewed, along with a catalog of the examples which have so far been found. Resummation can be accomplished by combining a variant of Starobinsky's stochastic formalism with a variant of the renormalization group. The issue of gauge independence is also addressed.
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@article{arxiv.2501.05077,
title = {Resummations for Inflationary Quantum Gravity},
author = {R. P. Woodard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.05077},
year = {2025}
}
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50 pages, 2 figures, uses LaTeX2e