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Using a scalar field as an intrinsic 'clock' while investigating the dynamics of gravitational systems has been successfully pursued in various researches on the border between classical and quantum gravity. The objective of our research…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-25 Anna Nakonieczna , Jerzy Lewandowski

During this work, using subtraction renormalization mechanism, zero point quantum fluctuations for bosonic scalar fields in a de-Sitter like background are investigated. By virtue of the observed value for spectral index, $n_s(k)$, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-13 Haidar Sheikhahmadi , Ali Aghamohammadi , Khaled Saaidi

There are obvious discrepancies among various experimental constraints on the variation of the fine-structure constant, $\alpha$. We attempt to discuss the issue in the framework of de Sitter invariant Special Relativity (${\cal SR}_{c,R}$)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shao-Xia Chen , Neng-Chao Xiao , Mu-Lin Yan

In this paper we propose a quantum version of the swampland conjecture. We argue that quantum instabilities of de Sitter space discovered using field theoretical methods, are directly related to the difficulties in finding stringy de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Ulf H. Danielsson

We discuss the quantization of an unstable field through the construction of a "one-particle Hilbert space." The system considered here is a neutral scalar field evolving over a globally hyperbolic static spacetime and subject to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-12 William C. C. Lima

We investigate the radiation from an inertial scalar particle evolving in a de Sitter expanding Universe. In the context of scalar QED the process is generated by the first order term in the perturbation theory expansion of the S-matrix.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-26 Robert Blaga

There does not exist a notion of time which could be transferred straightforwardly from classical to quantum gravity. For this reason, a method of time quantification which would be appropriate for gravity quantization is being sought. One…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 Anna Nakonieczna , Dong-han Yeom

Covariant, self-interacting scalar quantum field theories admit solutions for low enough spacetime dimensions, but when additional divergences appear in higher dimensions, the traditional approach leads to results, such as triviality, that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 John R. Klauder

We present some sufficient conditions for the global in time existence of solutions of the semilinear Klein-Gordon equation of the self-interacting scalar field with complex mass. The coefficients of the equation depend on spatial variables…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Karen Yagdjian

We revisit the problem of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB), its restoration, and phase transition for a self interacting quantum scalar field in a general curved background, at zero and finite temperature. To the best of our knowledge,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Vishal Nath , Sourav Bhattacharya

The de Sitter invariant special relativity is a natural extension of the usual Einstein special relativity. Within this framework a generalization of special relativity (SR) for the de Sitter space-time introduces a new length scale $R$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-28 Daria A. Tretyakova

Conditions for the existence and stability of de Sitter space in modified gravity are derived by considering inhomogeneous perturbations in a gauge-invariant formalism. The stability condition coincides with the corresponding condition for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Valerio Faraoni , Shahn Nadeau

The local physics of light scalar fields in de Sitter space is well described by classical random walks, as expressed through the framework of Stochastic Inflation. Recent work has clarified how this formalism arises from quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Daniel Green , Kshitij Gupta

The physics of de Sitter space is essential to our understanding of our cosmological past, present, and future. It forms the foundation for the statistical predictions of inflation in terms of quantum vacuum fluctuations that are being…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-13 Daniel Green

We study the solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation for the massive scalar field in the universal covering space of two-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. For certain values of the mass parameter, we impose a suitable set of boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Atsushi Higuchi , Lasse Schmieding , David Serrano Blanco

New spherical scalar modes on the expanding part of Sitter spacetime, eigenfunctions of a conserved Hamiltonian-like operator are found by solving the Klein-Gordon equation in the appropriate coordinate chart, with the help of a time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-24 Gabriel Pascu

The Shishkin's solutions of the Dirac equation in spherical moving frames of the de Sitter spacetime are investigated pointing out the set of commuting operators whose eigenvalues determine the integration constants. It is shown that these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Ion I. Cotăescu , Radu Racoceanu , Cosmin Crucean

The black hole scalarization in a special Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (EsGB) gravity has been widely investigated in recent years. Especially, the spontaneous scalarization of scalar-free black hole in de-Sitter (dS) spacetime possesses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-07 Zhen-Hao Yang , Guoyang Fu , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Jian-Pin Wu

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

Analytical approximations for $< \phi^2 >$ of a quantized scalar field in ultrastatic asymptotically flat spacetimes are obtained. The field is assumed to be both massive and massless, with an arbitrary coupling $\xi$ to the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Arkady A. Popov