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We study the back-reaction of a quantum scalar field on anti-de Sitter (AdS) space-time. The renormalized expectation value of the stress-energy tensor operator for a massless, conformally-coupled quantum scalar field on global AdS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-09 Jacob C. Thompson , Elizabeth Winstanley

Motivated by black hole physics, we define the Unruh state for a scalar field in de Sitter space. Like the Bunch-Davies state, the Unruh-de Sitter state appears thermal to a static observer. However, it breaks some of the symmetries of de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-26 Lars Aalsma , Maulik Parikh , Jan Pieter van der Schaar

Wightman function, the vacuum expectation values of the field squared and the energy-momentum tensor are investigated for a scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter in the geometry of a plate in the de Sitter spacetime. Robin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-08 A. A. Saharian , T. A. Vardanyan

Behaviour of a weekly self-interacting scalar field with a small mass in the de Sitter background is investigated using the stochastic approach (including the case of a double-well interaction potential). Existence of the de Sitter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Alexei A. Starobinsky , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

The Maxwell field with a general gauge fixing (GF) term is nontrivial, not only the longitudinal and temporal modes are mixed up in the field equations, but also unwanted consequences might arise from the GF term. We derive the complete set…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-08 Yang Zhang , Xuan Ye

We compute the one-loop quantum corrections to the gravitational potentials of a spinning point particle in a de Sitter background, due to the vacuum polarisation induced by conformal fields in an effective field theory approach. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-19 Markus B. Fröb , Enric Verdaguer

The two-point function characterizing the stress tensor fluctuations of a massless minimally coupled field for an invariant vacuum state in de Sitter spacetime is discussed. This two-point function is explicitly computed for spacelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

We employ gauge-gravity duality to study the backreaction effect of 4-dimensional large-$N$ quantum field theories on constant-curvature backgrounds, and in particular de Sitter space-time. The field theories considered are holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-22 Jewel Kumar Ghosh , Elias Kiritsis , Francesco Nitti , Lukas T. Witkowski

In the in-/out-state formalism we find the exact one-loop effective action of a massive scalar field in the global coordinates of de Sitter spaces, which is a gravity analog of the Heisenberg-Euler action in QED. The nonperturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-08-04 Sang Pyo Kim

de Sitter spacetime and Bunch-Davies vacuum are a solution to the semiclassical Einstein-Schroedinger equations describing the evolution of spacetime geometry and a massive scalar quantum field with arbitrary coupling to curvature. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-03-24 C. Busch

A quartic, self-interacting potential in the induced gravity framework is known to have a pure de Sitter attractor for the homogeneous mode. In order to obtain non-zero slow roll parameters we therefore study the quantum back-reaction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-20 A. Tronconi , G. Venturi

We investigate the quantum stability of a timelike topological wormhole with a simple geometry $M_2 \times S^2$, supported classically by anisotropic fluid. We compute the one-loop quantum backreaction generated by the vacuum fluctuations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 Haris Mehulic , Tomislav Prokopec

First, the present work is concerned with generalising constructions and results in quantum field theory on curved spacetimes from the well-known case of the Klein-Gordon field to Dirac fields. To this end, the enlarged algebra of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-22 Thomas-Paul Hack

Two-point functions, mean-squared fluctuations, and the vacuum expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor operator are investigated for a massive scalar field with an arbitrary curvature coupling parameter, subject to a spherical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-06 K. Milton , A. A. Saharian

The two-point function of the stress tensor operator of a quantum field in de Sitter spacetime is calculated for an arbitrary number of dimensions. We assume the field to be in the Bunch-Davies vacuum, and formulate our calculation in terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-15 Guillem Pérez-Nadal , Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

Scalar-tensor gravity is one of the most competitive gravity theory to Einstein's relativity. We reconstruct the exact de Sitter solution in scalar-tensor gravity, in which the non-minimal coupling scalar is rolling along the potential.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-04 Hongsheng Zhang , Xin-Zhou Li

We study the backreaction of quantum fields in the Boulware vacuum state on the Schwarzschild geometry, using the Riegert--Mottola--Vaulin renormalized stress-energy tensor derived from the conformal anomaly. An order-reduction procedure is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Francesco Di Filippo , Shinji Mukohyama , Kazumasa Okabayashi

The vacuum expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor and the Casimir forces are investigated for a massive scalar field with an arbitrary curvature coupling parameter in the geometry of two parallel plates, on the background of de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-01 A. A. Saharian

It has been shown that the theory of linear conformal quantum gravity must include a tensor field of rank-3 and mixed symmetry [1]. In this paper, we obtain the corresponding field equation in de Sitter space. Then, in order to relate this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 M. V. Takook , M. R. Tanhayi , S. Fatemi

The cosmological backreaction arises when one directly averages the Einstein equations to recover an effective Robertson-Walker cosmology, rather than assuming a background a priori. While usually discussed in the context of dark energy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-10 Iain A. Brown , Georg Robbers , Juliane Behrend