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In the in-/out-state formalism we find the exact one-loop effective action of a massive scalar field in the global coordinates of de Sitter spaces, which is a gravity analog of the Heisenberg-Euler action in QED. The nonperturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-08-04 Sang Pyo Kim

Vacuum decay in de Sitter space is a process of great physical interest, as it allows to rule out cosmological models in the early and current Universe. Its rate may be described in terms of an instanton in Euclidean space called bounce and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-24 Silvia Vicentini

We discuss the dynamical quantum systems which turn out to be bi-unitary with respect to the same alternative Hermitian structures in a infinite-dimensional complex Hilbert space. We give a necessary and sufficient condition so that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Marmo , G. Scolarici , A. Simoni , F. Ventriglia

De Sitter solutions have been recently conjectured to be incompatible with quantum gravity. In this paper we critically assess the progress and challenges of different mechanisms to obtain de Sitter vacua in string compactifications and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-21 Michele Cicoli , Senarath de Alwis , Anshuman Maharana , Francesco Muia , Fernando Quevedo

Curved momentum spaces associated to the $\kappa$-deformation of the (3+1) de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter algebras are constructed as orbits of suitable actions of the dual Poisson-Lie group associated to the $\kappa$-deformation with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-06 Angel Ballesteros , Giulia Gubitosi , Iván Gutiérrez-Sagredo , Francisco J. Herranz

These lectures present an elementary discussion of some background material relevant to the problem of de Sitter quantum gravity. The first two lectures discuss the classical geometry of de Sitter space and properties of quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcus Spradlin , Andrew Strominger , Anastasia Volovich

The thermodynamic behavior of a decaying vacuum cosmology describing the entire cosmological history evolving between two extreme (early and late time) de Sitter eras is investigated. The thermal evolution from the early de Sitter to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 J. A. S. Lima , S. Basilakos , Joan Solà

In gravitational theories with boundaries, diffeomorphisms can become physical and acquire a non-vanishing Noether charge. Using the covariant phase space formalism, on shell of the gravitational constraints, the latter localizes on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-11 Luca Ciambelli , Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman , Ludovic Varrin

We study Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with positive cosmological constant as a model for de Sitter quantum gravity. We focus on the quantum mechanics of the model at past and future infinity. There is a Hilbert space of asymptotic states and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-15 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen

In this work we investigate the $q$-deformation of the $so(4)$ dynamical symmetry of the hydrogen atom using the theory of the quantum group $su_q(2)$. We derive the energy spectrum in a physically consistent manner and find a degeneracy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 P. G. Castro , R. Kullock

Starting from arbitrary Hilbert spaces, we reduce the problem to verify entanglement of any bipartite quantum state to finite dimensional subspaces. Hence, entanglement is a finite dimensional property. A generalization for multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Sperling , W. Vogel

When the symmetry of a physical theory describing a finite system is deformed by replacing its Lie group by the corresponding quantum group, the operators and state function will lie in a new algebra describing new degrees of freedom. If…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. Finkelstein

We refine previous investigations on de Sitter space and extremal surfaces anchored at the future boundary $I^+$. Since such surfaces do not return, they require extra data or boundary conditions in the past (interior). In entirely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-21 K. Narayan

We introduce a simple microscopic quantum mechanical model of low-dimensional de Sitter holography with an observer. Using semiclassical gravity and elementary thermodynamic considerations, we derive a formula for the total entropy of a 3D…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-07 Damiano Tietto , Herman Verlinde

Recently a swampland criterion has been proposed that rules out de Sitter vacua in string theory. Such a criterion should hold at all points in the field space and especially at points where the system is on-shell. However there has not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Keshav Dasgupta , Maxim Emelin , Evan McDonough , Radu Tatar

We discuss and extend some aspects pertaining to the canonical quantisation of JT gravity in de Sitter space, including the problem of time and the construction of a Hilbert space. We then extend this discussion to other two dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 Indranil Dey , Kanhu Kishore Nanda , Akashdeep Roy , Sunil Kumar Sake , Sandip P. Trivedi

A exact de Sitter-like cosmological solution of quadratic gravitation with torsion has been found. In the limit of constant energy and pressure, it becomes a exact de Sitter spacetime. It exists in a wide class of quadratic gravity theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-18 Guo-Ying Qi , Yongxin Guo

We analyze different types of quantum corrections to the Cardy-Verlinde entropy formula in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe and in an (anti)-de Sitter space. In all cases we show that quantum corrections can be represented by an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Octavio Obregon , Sergei D. Odintsov , Hernando Quevedo , Mike P. Ryan

A deSitter brane-world bounding regions of anti-deSitter space has a macroscopic entropy given by one-quarter the area of the observer horizon. A proposed variant of the AdS/CFT correspondence gives a dual description of this cosmology as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen Hawking , Juan Maldacena , Andrew Strominger

We discuss peculiarities of quantum fields in de Sitter space on the example of the self-interacting massive real scalar, minimally coupled to the gravity background. Non-conformal quantum field theories in de Sitter space show very special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-03 E. T. Akhmedov