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One of the most challenging technical aspects of the dualities between string theory on anti-de Sitter spaces and conformal field theories is understanding how location in the interior of spacetime is represented in the field theory. It has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Jorma Louko , Donald Marolf , Simon F. Ross

We consider scalar field theory in de Sitter space with a general vacuum invariant under the continuously connected symmetries of the de Sitter group. We begin by reviewing approaches to define this as a perturbative quantum field theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Kevin Goldstein , David A. Lowe

In the present work the massless vector field in the de Sitter (dS) space has been quantized. "Massless" is used here by reference to conformal invariance and propagation on the dS light-cone whereas "massive" refers to those dS fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Garidi , J-P. Gazeau , S. Rouhani , M. V. Takook

We apply a new coordinate space method for the evaluation of lattice Feynman diagrams suggested by L\"uscher and Weisz to field theories in two dimensions. Our work is to be presented for the theories with massless propagators. The main…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 Dong-Shin Shin

Polymer Quantum Mechanics is based on some of the techniques used in the loop quantization of gravity that are adapted to describe systems possessing a finite number of degrees of freedom. It has been used in two ways: on one hand it has…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 Ernesto Flores-González , Hugo A. Morales-Técotl , Juan D. Reyes

A free-theory vacuum state of an interacting field theory, e.g. quantum gravity, is unstable at tree level in general due to spontaneous emission of Fock-space particles in any spacetime with no global timelike Killing vectors, such as de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Atsushi Higuchi

The issue of de Sitter invariance for a massless minimally coupled scalar field is revisited. Formally, it is possible to construct a de Sitter invariant state for this case provided that the zero mode of the field is quantized properly.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Klaus Kirsten , Jaume Garriga

We obtain a scale-invariant spectrum from the Lee-Wick model in de Sitter spacetime. This model is a fourth-order scalar theory whose mass parameter is determined by $M^2=2H^2$. The Harrison-Zel'dovich scale-invariant spectrum is obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Yun Soo Myung , Taeyoon Moon

We discuss the quantization of linearized gravity in the background de Sitter spacetime using a gauge-invariant formalism to write the perturbed gravitational field in the static patch. This field is quantized after fixing the gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-11 Rafael P. Bernar , Luís C. B. Crispino , Atsushi Higuchi

We compute 1-loop corrections to Lorentz-signature de Sitter-invariant 2-point functions defined by the interacting Euclidean vacuum for massive scalar quantum fields with cubic and quartic interactions. Our results apply to all masses for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-23 Donald Marolf , Ian A. Morrison

We consider the wave equation on asymptotically Minkowski spacetimes and the Klein-Gordon equation on even asymptotically de Sitter spaces. In both cases we show that the extreme difference of propagators (i.e. retarded propagator minus…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 András Vasy , Michał Wrochna

We consider the dynamics of massive spinning fields during inflation and the resulting signatures in the cosmological correlators of inflaton perturbations computed in the Poincar\'e patch of de Sitter space. There are (at least) two ways…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-13 Trevor Cheung , David Stefanyszyn

We study the Lie algebras of the covariant representations transforming the matter fields under the de Sitter isometries. We point out that the Casimir operators of these representations can be written in closed forms and we deduce how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-09 Ion I. Cotaescu

We describe an efficient position space technique to calculate lattice Feynman integrals in infinite volume. The method applies to diagrams with massless propagators. For illustration a set of two-loop integrals is worked out explicitly. An…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-31 Martin Luescher , Peter Weisz

Perturbative gravity about global de Sitter space is subject to linearization-stability constraints. Such constraints imply that quantum states of matter fields couple consistently to gravity {\it only} if the matter state has vanishing de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Donald Marolf , Ian A. Morrison

We study the Moyal commutators and their expectation values between vacuum states and non-vacuum states for free scalar field on noncommutative spacetime. Then from the Moyal commutators, we find that the microcausality is satisfied for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Zheng Ze Ma

The propagator of the discrete Schr\"odinger equation is computed and its properties are revealed through a Feynman path summation in discrete space. Initial data problems such as diffraction in discrete space and continuous time are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-01 Emerson Sadurní

We consider the massless Sine-Gordon model in de Sitter spacetime, in the regime $\beta^2 < 4 \pi$ and using the framework of perturbative algebraic quantum field theory. We show that a Fock space representation exists for the free massless…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Daniela Cadamuro , Markus B. Fröb , Carolina Moreira Ferrera

A conformally invariant model of two interacting massless particles in Minkowski space was proposed by Casalbuoni and Gomis [1]. We generalize this model to the case of de Sitter space from the perspective of geodesic distance, in such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-20 Naohiro Kanda , Satoshi Okano

Recent theoretical work has revealed that basic observables of quantum field theory in de Sitter space, known as in-in or cosmological correlators, exhibit surprisingly simple mathematical structure reminiscent of scattering amplitudes in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Sadra Jazayeri , Arthur Lipstein , Joe Marshall , Jiajie Mei , Ivo Sachs