English

Tensors and Spinors in de Sitter Space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-12-16 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct the Wightman function for symmetric traceless tensors and Dirac fermions in dSd+1_{d+1} in a coordinate and index free formalism using a d+2d+2 dimensional ambient space. We expand the embedding space formalism to cover spinor and tensor fields in any even or odd dimension. Our goal is to furnish a self-contained toolkit for the study of fields of arbitrary spin in de Sitter, with applications to cosmological perturbation theory. The construction for spinors is shown in extensive detail. Concise expressions for the action of isometry generators on generic bulk fields, the 2-point function of bulk spinors, and a derivation of the uplift of the spinorial covariant derivative are included.

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@article{arxiv.2111.14899,
  title  = {Tensors and Spinors in de Sitter Space},
  author = {Ben Pethybridge and Vladimir Schaub},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.14899},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

33 pages, 1 figure. v2 : Minor corrections and simplifications, added references. v3 : matches published version