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New quantum modes of the free scalar field are derived in a special time-evolution picture that may be introduced in moving charts of de Sitter backgrounds. The wave functions of these new modes are solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ion I. Cotaescu , Cosmin Crucean , Adrian Pop

In this work we investigate the quantum theory of scalar fields propagating in a $D-$dimensional de Sitter spacetime. The method of dynamic invariants is used to obtain the solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Alencar , I. Guedes , R. R. Landim , R. N. Costa Filho

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

In this paper we will analyse quantum field theory on de Sitter spacetime. We will analyse a general scalar and vector field theory on de Sitter spacetime. This is done by first calculating these propagators on four-Sphere and then…

General-relativistic stable spacetimes can be made unstable under the presence of certain nonminimally coupled free scalar fields. In this paper, we analyze the evolution of linear scalar-field perturbations in spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-11 Raissa F. P. Mendes , George E. A. Matsas , Daniel A. T. Vanzella

de Sitter space-time has a one complex parameter family of invariant vacua for the theory of a free, massive scalar field. For most of these vacua, in an interacting scalar theory the one loop corrections diverge linearly for large values…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Hael Collins , R. Holman , Matthew R. Martin

It is known that quantum field theories in curved spacetime suffer from a number of pathologies, including the inability to relate states on different spatial slices by proper unitary time-evolution operators. In this article, we illustrate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 William T. Emond , Christian Käding , Peter Millington

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

We study the instability of de Sitter space-time (dS) under thermal radiation in different vacua. We argue that the mode function solution of a scalar field in four-dimensional dS can be separated into the incoming and outgoing modes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-20 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Min-Seok Seo

The vacuum expectation value of the square of the field fluctuations of a scalar field on a background consisting of {\it two} de Sitter branes embedded in an anti-de Sitter bulk are considered. We apply a dimensional reduction to obtain an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 Wade Naylor , Misao Sasaki

We consider an infrared truncated massive minimally coupled scalar field with an asymmetric self-interaction $\frac{m^2}{2}\varphi^2\!+\!\frac{\lambda\varphi^4}{4!}\!+\!\frac{\beta\varphi^3}{3!}(\lambda\!>\!0)$ during a cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 G. Karakaya

The quantum break-time of a system is the time-scale after which its true quantum evolution departs from the classical mean field evolution. For capturing it, a quantum resolution of the classical background - e.g., in terms of a coherent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Gia Dvali , Cesar Gomez , Sebastian Zell

Backreactions are considered in a de Sitter spacetime whose cosmological constant is generated by the potential of scalar field. The leading order gravitational effect of nonlinear matter fluctuations is analyzed and it is found that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Losic , W. G. Unruh

We consider spherically symmetric Einstein-massless-scalar field equations with negative cosmological constant in five dimensions and analyze evolution of small perturbations of anti-de Sitter spacetime using the recently proposed resonant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-26 Piotr Bizoń , Maciej Maliborski , Andrzej Rostworowski

We study the cosmological evolution of the field equations in the context of Einstein-Aether cosmology by including a scalar field in a spatially flat Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker spacetime. Our analysis is separated into two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-17 Andronikos Paliathanasis , G. Papagiannopoulos , Spyros Basilakos , John D. Barrow

Inertial observers in de Sitter are surrounded by a horizon and see thermal fluctuations. To them, a massless scalar field appears to follow a random motion but any attractive potential, no matter how weak, will eventually stabilize the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-09 Mehrdad Mirbabayi

Massless interacting scalar fields in de Sitter space have long been known to experience large fluctuations over length scales larger than Hubble distances. A similar situation arises in condensed matter physics in the vicinity of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-19 C. P. Burgess , R. Holman , L. Leblond , S. Shandera

The physical instability of the Universe model with de Sitter beginning is proved in this article. 1. It is shown that even a small addition of ultrarelativistic matter turns the de Sitter Universe into the Universe with finite past. 2.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-24 Yurii Ignat'ev

Quantum fluctuations for a massless scalar field in the background metric of spherical impulsive gravitational waves through Minkowski and de Sitter spaces are investigated. It is shown that there exist finite fluctuations for de Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Y. Enginer , M. Hortacsu , N. Ozdemir

Recently in \cite{Anderson:2013zia, Anderson:2013ila}, it was shown that global de Sitter space is unstable even to the massive particle creation with no self-interactions. In this paper we study the instability by making use of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-28 M. Reza Tanhayi