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We study the infrared (long distance) behavior of the free photon field in de Sitter spacetime. Using a two-parameter family of gauge fixing terms, we show that the infrared (IR) behavior of the two-point function is highly gauge-dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-29 Ahmed Youssef

We obtain analytic results for the four-point amplitude, at one loop, of an interacting scalar field theory in four-dimensional, Euclidean anti-de Sitter space without exerting any conformal field theory knowledge. For the two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-10 Igor Bertan , Ivo Sachs

In this work, we investigate the renormalized energy--momentum tensor of a quantized charged scalar field in three-dimensional de Sitter spacetime $\mathrm{dS}_{3}$ under the influence of a uniform electric field. Using the adiabatic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Manizheh Botshekananfard , Takahiro Hayashinaka

The scale invariance of the quantum fluctuations in de Sitter space leads to the appearance of de Sitter symmetry breaking infra-red logarithms in the graviton propagator. We investigate physical effects of soft gravitons on the local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-14 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

We discuss peculiarities of quantum fields in de Sitter space on the example of the self-interacting massive real scalar, minimally coupled to the gravity background. Non-conformal quantum field theories in de Sitter space show very special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-03 E. T. Akhmedov

We study the phi^4 scalar field theory in de Sitter space using the 2PI effective action formalism. This formalism enables us to investigate the nonperturbative quantum effects. We use the mean field and gap equations and calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-16 Takashi Arai

We summarize and expand our investigations concerning the soft graviton effects on microscopic matter dynamics in de Sitter space. The physical couplings receive IR logarithmic corrections which are sensitive to the IR cut-off at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-31 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

In previous papers [1,2], it was proved that a covariant quantization of the minimally coupled scalar field in de Sitter space is achieved through addition of the negative norm states. This causal approach which eliminates the infrared…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Rouhani , M. V. Takook

We study conformally-coupled massive scalar field theory with the mass term treated as a perturbation in the expanding half of de Sitter spacetime as a toy model for comparing various perturbative formalisms. We point out that the in-out…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Atsushi Higuchi , Yen Cheong Lee

We investigate nonperturbative infrared effects for the O(N) linear sigma model in de Sitter space using the two-particle irreducible effective action at the Hartree truncation level. This approximation resums the infinite series of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-23 Takashi Arai

We study symmetry breaking in the static coordinate-system of de Sitter space. This is done with the help of the functional-Schr\"odinger approach used in previous calculations by Ratra [1]. We consider a massless, minimally coupled scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 András Kaiser , Alan Chodos

We study the two-dimensional version of a quartic self-interacting quantum scalar field on a curved and noncommutative space (Snyder-de Sitter). We show that the model is renormalizable at the one-loop level and compute the beta functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-20 S. A. Franchino-Viñas , S. Mignemi

In a time dependent background like de Sitter space, Feynman-Dyson perturbation theory breaks down due to infra-red divergences. We investigate an interacting scalar field theory in Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. We derive a Boltzmann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-19 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

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

Light scalars in inflationary spacetimes suffer from logarithmic infrared divergences at every order in perturbation theory. This corresponds to the scalar field values in different Hubble patches undergoing a random walk of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-22 Matthew Baumgart , Raman Sundrum

We examine long-wavelength correlation functions of massive scalar fields in de Sitter spacetime. For the theory with a quartic self-interaction, the two-point function is calculated up to two loops. Comparing our results with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-25 Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik , Alexei A. Starobinsky , Tereza Vardanyan

We analyze the computation of $n$-point correlation functions in de Sitter spacetime, including loop corrections, using the wavefunction of the universe approach. This method consists of two stages employing distinct Feynman rules. First,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-26 Javier Huenupi , Ellie Hughes , Gonzalo A. Palma , Spyros Sypsas

We consider a massless and minimally coupled self interacting quantum scalar field theory in the inflationary de Sitter background of dimension four. The self interaction potential is taken to be either quartic, $\lambda \phi^4/4!$, or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Sourav Bhattacharya , Sudesh Kumar

We investigate infrared dynamics of four-dimensional Einstein gravity in de Sitter space. We set up a general framework to investigate dynamical scaling relations in quantum/classical gravitational theories. The conformal mode dependence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-25 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa , Takahiko Matsubara

We set up a consistent renormalizable perturbation theory of a scalar field in a nontrivial alpha vacuum in de Sitter space. Although one representation of the effective action involves non-local interactions between anti-podal points, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Kevin Goldstein , David A. Lowe