Two Loop Scalar Self-Mass during Inflation
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2010-04-06 v2 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We work in the locally de Sitter background of an inflating universe and consider a massless, minimally coupled scalar with a quartic self-interaction. We use dimensional regularization to compute the fully renormalized scalar self-mass-squared at one and two loop order for a state which is released in Bunch-Davies vacuum at t=0. Although the field strength and coupling constant renormalizations are identical to those of lfat space, the geometry induces a non-zero mass renormalization. The finite part also shows a sort of growing mass that competes with the classical force in eventually turning off this system's super-acceleration.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0408080,
title = {Two Loop Scalar Self-Mass during Inflation},
author = {T. Brunier and V. K. Onemli and R. P. Woodard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0408080},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
31 pages, 5 figures, revtex4, revised for publication with extended list of references