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We consider the stochastic quantization method for scalar fields defined in a curved manifold. The two-point function associated to a massive self-interacting scalar field is evaluated, up to the first order level in the coupling constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-20 T. C. de Aguiar , G. Menezes , N. F. Svaiter

We present a mathematically rigorous quantum-mechanical treatment of a two-dimensional nonrelativistic quantum dual theories (with oscillator and Coulomb like potentials) on pseudosphere and compare their spectra and the sets of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-21 G. V. Grigoryan , R. P. Grigoryan , I. V. Tyutin

The scalar, vector and tensor spherical harmonics on three-dimensional de Sitter spacetime are defined and analyzed. Each harmonic defines two sets of asymptotic data on the two sphere in the asymptotic expansion close to both the past and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Geoffrey Compère , Sébastien Robert

In a recent paper [1], it has been shown that negative norm states are indispensable for a fully covariant quantization of the minimally coupled scalar field in de Sitter space. Their presence, while leaving unchanged the physical content…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mohammad Vahid Takook

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

We consider a massive scalar field with quartic self-interaction $\lambda/4!\,\phi^4$ in de~Sitter spacetime and present a diagrammatic expansion that describes the field as driven by stochastic noise. This is compared with the Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-25 Bjorn Garbrecht , Florian Gautier , Gerasimos Rigopoulos , Yi Zhu

In this article, we clarify the link between the conformal (i.e. Weyl) correspondence from the Minkowski space to the de Sitter space and the conformal (i.e. SO(2,$d$)) invariance of the conformal scalar field on both spaces. We exhibit the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Huguet , J. Queva , J. Renaud

In this paper, we calculate corrections of scalar perturbations spectra resulting from excited-de Sitter modes as the nontrivial initial states. To obtain these modes, we consider the asymptotic expansion of the Hankel functions up to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-29 E. Yusofi , M. Mohsenzadeh

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

The effective equation of motion is derived for a scalar field interacting with other fields in a Friedman-Robertson-Walker background space-time. The dissipative behavior reflected in this effective evolution equation is studied both in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Arjun Berera , Rudnei O. Ramos

We study the two-point correlator of an O(N) scalar field with quartic self-coupling in de Sitter space. For light fields in units of the expansion rate, perturbation theory is plagued by large logarithmic terms for superhorizon momenta. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Florian Gautier , Julien Serreau

We consider an infrared truncated massless minimally coupled scalar field with a quartic self-interaction in the locally de Sitter background of an inflating universe. We compute the two-point correlation function of the scalar at one and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 V. K. Onemli

We provide an inhomogeneous solution concerning the dynamics of a real self interacting scalar field minimally coupled to gravity in a region of the configuration space where it performs a slow rolling on a plateau of its potential. During…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Giovanni Imponente , Giovanni Montani

We study the relation between the spectral gap above the ground state and the decay of the correlations in the ground state in quantum spin and fermion systems with short-range interactions on a wide class of lattices. We prove that, if two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthew B. Hastings , Tohru Koma

We investigate cosmologies with an arbitrary number of scalars and the most general multi-exponential potential. By formulating the equations of motion in terms of autonomous systems we complete the classification of power-law and de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Andres Collinucci , Mikkel Nielsen , Thomas Van Riet

Dynamical systems methods are used to investigate dynamics of a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological model with the non-minimally coupled scalar field and a potential function. Performed analysis distinguishes the value of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-07 Orest Hrycyna

Developing our understanding of how correlations evolve during inflation is crucial if we are to extract information about the early Universe from our late-time observables. To that end, we revisit the time evolution of scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 Sebastian Cespedes , Anne-Christine Davis , Scott Melville

In a class of spatially homogeneous cosmologies including those of Bianchi type I--VIII mathematical results are presented which show that a scalar field non-minimally coupled to the scalar curvature of spacetime can dynamically yield a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-06 Roger Bieli

This paper contains a detailed study of the properties of a simple model attempting to explain dark energy as originated from quantum fluctuations of a light spectator scalar field in inflation. In [1] we recently outlined how Starobinsky's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Enis Belgacem , Tomislav Prokopec

We present a mathematically rigorous quantum-mechanical treatment of a two-dimensional nonrelativistic quantum dual theories (with oscillator and Coulomb like potentials) on a plane and compare their spectra and the sets of eigenfunctions.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-21 G. V. Grigoryan , R. P. Grigoryan , I. V. Tyutin