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We generalize some results of Ford and Roman constraining the possible behaviors of renormalized expected stress-energy tensors of a free massless scalar field in two dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Ford and Roman showed that the energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Eanna E. Flanagan

We compute the late-time correlation functions on three-dimensional de Sitter spacetime for a higher-spin gravity theory. For this, we elaborate on the formulation to obtain the wave functional of universe from a dual conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Heng-Yu Chen , Shi Chen , Yasuaki Hikida

We present a comprehensive discussion of tree-level holographic $4$-point functions of scalar operators in momentum space. We show that each individual Witten diagram satisfies the conformal Ward identities on its own and is thus a valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-15 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

Using the Schwinger-Keldysh-formalism, reformulated in arXiv:2108.01695 as an effective field theory in Euclidean anti-de Sitter, we evaluate the one-loop cosmological four-point function of a conformally coupled interacting scalar field in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 T. Heckelbacher , I. Sachs , E. Skvortsov , P. Vanhove

Two-point correlation functions of spin operators in the minimal models ${{\cal M}}_{p,p'}$ perturbed by the field $\Phi_{13}$ are studied in the framework of conformal perturbation theory. The first-order corrections for the structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 A. A. Belavin , V. A. Belavin , A. V. Litvinov , Y. P. Pugai , Al. B. Zamolodchikov

We discuss the effect of pairing on two-neutron space correlations in deformed nuclei. The spatial correlations are described by the pairing tensor in coordinate space calculated in the HFB approach. The calculations are done using the D1S…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 N. Pillet , N. Sandulescu , P. Schuck , J. -F. Berger

Scalar-tensor theories have a long history as possible phenomenological alternatives to General Relativity, but are known to potentially produce deviations from the (strong) equivalence principle in systems involving self-gravitating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Adrien Kuntz , Enrico Barausse

We study a higher order conformally coupled scalar tensor theory endowed with a covariant geometric constraint relating the scalar curvature with the Gauss-Bonnet scalar. It is a particular Horndeski theory including a canonical kinetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Eugeny Babichev , Christos Charmousis , Mokhtar Hassaine , Nicolas Lecoeur

The semiclassical Einstein-Langevin equations which describe the dynamics of stochastic perturbations of the metric induced by quantum stress-energy fluctuations of matter fields in a given state are considered on the background of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Rosario Martin , Enric Verdaguer

Conformally compactified (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime may be identified with the projective light cone in (4+2)-dimensional spacetime. In the latter spacetime the special conformal group acts via rotations and boosts, and conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-05 Steven Duplij , Gerald A. Goldin , Vladimir Shtelen

Original abstract: Consider the worldline of a charged particle in a static spacetime. Contraction of the time-translation Killing field with the retarded electromagnetic energy-momentum tensor gives a conserved electromagnetic energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Stephen Parrott

Smooth deformations of a Minkowski type metric in a four-dimensional space-time manifold are considered. Deformations of the basic spin-tensorial fields associated with this metric are calculated and their application to calculating the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-11 Ruslan Sharipov

We derive consistency relations for correlators of scalar cosmological perturbations which hold in the "squeezed limit" in which one or more of the external momenta become soft. Our results are formulated as relations between suitably…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-14 Walter D. Goldberger , Lam Hui , Alberto Nicolis

In this paper we investigate the vacuum expectation values of energy- momentum tensor for conformally coupled scalar field in the standard parallel plate geometry with Dirichlet boundary conditions and on background of planar domain wall…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 M. R. Setare , A. Saharain

In a recent work on the quantization of a massless scalar field in a particular colliding plane wave space-time, we computed the vacuum expectation value of the stress-energy tensor on the physical state which corresponds to the Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Miquel Dorca

We make use of the conformal compactification of Minkowski spacetime $M^{\#}$ to explore a way of describing general, nonlinear Maxwell fields with conformal symmetry. We distinguish the inverse Minkowski spacetime $[M^{\#}]^{-1}$ obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-04 Gerald A. Goldin , Vladimir M. Shtelen , Steven Duplij

In the previous paper [arXiv:2210.10435], the nonlinear perturbation theory of cosmological density field is generalized to include the tensor-valued bias of astronomical objects, such as spins and shapes of galaxies and any other tensors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Takahiko Matsubara

We discuss the averaging problem in general relativity, using the form of the macroscopic gravity equations in the case of spherical symmetry in volume preserving coordinates. In particular, we calculate the form of the correlation tensor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Coley , N. Pelavas

We show that for four dimensional gauge theories in the conformal window, the Euler anomaly, known as the $a$-function, can be computed from a $2$-point function of the trace of the energy momentum tensor making it more amenable to lattice…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-16 Vladimir Prochazka , Roman Zwicky

We prove a theorem on scalar-valued functions of tensors, where ``scalar'' refers to absolute scalars as well as relative scalars of weight $w$. The present work thereby generalizes an identity referred to earlier by Rosenfeld in his…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-15 J. Struckmeier , A. van de Venn , D. Vasak