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We present the one-loop effective action of a quantum scalar field with DSR1 space-time symmetry as a sum over field modes. The effective action has real and imaginary parts and manifest charge conjugation asymmetry, which provides an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 M V Cougo-Pinto , C Farina , F S S Rosa , J F M Mendes

Motivated by the study of quantum fields in a Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) spacetime, the one-loop effective action for a scalar field defined in the ultrastatic manifold $R\times H^3/\Gamma$, $H^3/\Gamma$ being the finite volume,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Guido Cognola , Sergio Zerbini

In this paper, the \lambda\phi^4 scalar feld effective action, in the one-loop approximation, is calculated by using the Krein space quantization. We show that the effective action is naturally fnite and the singularity does not appear in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-14 A. Refaei , M V. Takook

We calculate the quantum effective action for a scalar field which has been recently used for a specific kind of symmetry breaking in gravity. Our study consists of calculating the 1-loop path integral of canonical momentum and determining…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-04 Amin Akhavan

The 1--loop effective Lagrangian for a massive scalar field on an arbitrary causality violating spacetime is calculated using the methods of Euclidean quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Fields of spin 1/2, spin 1 and twisted field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 M. J. Cassidy

Scalar fields appear in many theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. In the early universe, they are exposed to extreme conditions, including high temperature and rapid cosmic expansion. Understanding their behavior in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-21 Yeuk-Kwan E. Cheung , Marco Drewes , Jin U Kang , Jong Chol Kim

Motivated by the seminal work of Schwinger, we obtain explicit closed form expressions for the one-loop effective action in a constant electromagnetic field. We discuss both massive and massless charged scalars and spinors in two, three,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-10 Steven K. Blau , Matt Visser , Andreas Wipf

We explicitly compute the ellitpic points and isotropy groups for the action of the Picard modular group over the Gaussian integers on 2-dimensional complex hyperbolic space.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dan Yasaki

The one-loop effective action for a $p$ brane embedded in a $D=p+2$ Minkowski spacetime in the static gauge is calculated. Rescaling the quantum fluctuation by $\sqrt{-g_0}$ evaluated on the background brane leads to the one-loop effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Tae-Hun Lee

Considerable work has been done on the one-loop effective action in combined electromagnetic and gravitational fields, particularly as a tool for determining the properties of light propagation in curved space. After a short review of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-24 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Jose Manuel Davila , Christian Schubert

The in-out formalism is a systematic and powerful method for finding the effective actions in an electromagnetic field and a curved spacetime provided that the field equation has explicitly known solutions. The effective action becomes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Sang Pyo Kim

For nonsupersymmetric theories, the one-loop effective action can be computed via zeta function regularization in terms of the functional trace of the heat kernel associated with the operator which appears in the quadratic part of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 I. N. McArthur , T. D. Gargett

The one-loop effective action for D-dimensional quantum gravity with negative cosmological constant, is investigated in space-times with compact hyperbolic spatial section. The explicit expansion of the effective action as a power series of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 A. A. Btsenko , A. D. Odintsov , S. Zerbini

We investigate the propagation of arbitrarily coupled scalar fields on the $N$-dimensional hyperbolic space ${\mathbb H}^N$. Using the $\zeta$-function regularization we compute exactly the one loop effective action. The vacuum expectation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Marco M. Caldarelli

In this paper we calculate the divergent part of the one loop effective action for QED on noncommutative space using the background field method. The effective action is obtained up to the second order in the noncommutative parameter theta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Maja Buric , Voja Radovanovic

We derive a new kind of recursion relation to obtain the one-particle-irreducible (1PI) Feynman diagrams for the effective action. By using this method, we have obtained the graphical representation of the four-loop effective action in case…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Chungku Kim

Our previously-developed calculational method (the partial wave cutoff method) is employed to evaluate explicitly scalar one-loop effective actions in a class of radially symmetric background gauge fields. Our method proves to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerald V. Dunne , Jin Hur , Choonkyu Lee , Hyunsoo Min

We compute the divergent contributions to the one-loop action of the U(1) Abelian Higgs model. The calculation allows for a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker space-time and a time-dependent expectation value for the scalar field. Treating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Damien P. George , Sander Mooij , Marieke Postma

The aim of this article is to calculate (to first order in $\hbar$) the renormalized effective action of a self interacting massive scalar field propagating in the space-time due to a cylindrically symmetric, rotating body. The vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Briginshaw

We develop the in-out formalism for one-loop effective actions in electromagnetic fields in the space-dependent gauge. We further advance a method using the inverse scattering matrix to calculate the effective actions in pure magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-22 Sang Pyo Kim