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Wightman function, the vacuum expectation values of the field squared and the energy-momentum tensor are investigated for a scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter in the geometry of a plate in the de Sitter spacetime. Robin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-08 A. A. Saharian , T. A. Vardanyan

We formulate $R^2$ pure supergravity as a scale invariant theory built only in terms of superfields describing the geometry of curved superspace. The standard supergravity duals are obtained in both "old" and "new" minimal formulations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Sergio Ferrara , Alex Kehagias , Massimo Porrati

Arbitrary spin free massless bosonic fields propagating in even $d$ - dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime are investigated. Free wave equations of motion, subsidiary conditions and the corresponding gauge transformations for such fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-19 R. R. Metsaev

We work in the locally de Sitter background of an inflating universe and consider a massless, minimally coupled scalar with a quartic self-interaction. We use dimensional regularization to compute the fully renormalized scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 T. Brunier , V. K. Onemli , R. P. Woodard

We show that there is only one physically acceptable vacuum state for quantum fields in de Sitter space-time which is left invariant under the action of the de Sitter-Lorentz group $SO(1,d)$ and supply its physical interpretation in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-30 Aharon Casher , Pawel O. Mazur , Andrzej J. Staruszkiewicz

We compute the one loop self-mass of a charged massless, minimally coupled scalar in a locally de Sitter background geometry. The computation is done in two different gauges: the noninvariant generalization of Feynman gauge which gives the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 E. O. Kahya , R. P. Woodard

Perturbative gravity about global de Sitter space is subject to linearization-stability constraints. Such constraints imply that quantum states of matter fields couple consistently to gravity {\it only} if the matter state has vanishing de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Donald Marolf , Ian A. Morrison

We investigate a model of two-dimensional gravity with arbitrary scalar potential obtained by gauging a deformation of de Sitter or more general algebras, which accounts for the existence of an invariant energy scale. We obtain explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Mignemi

We present a method to compute the two-point functions for an $O(N)$ scalar field model in de Sitter spacetime, avoiding the well known infrared problems for massless fields. The method is based on an exact treatment of the Euclidean zero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-01 Diana López Nacir , Francisco D. Mazzitelli , Leonardo G. Trombetta

The quantum field theory is expanding in de Sitter space-time. The ambient space formalism let us to develop the quantum field theory in a careful mathematical framework. Using the gauge-covariant derivative in the de Sitter ambient space,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-25 S. Falahi , S. Parsamehr

We study an interacting $\lambda\,\phi^4_{\star}$ scalar field defined on Snyder-de Sitter space. Due to the noncommutativity as well as the curvature of this space, the renormalization of the two-point function differs from the commutative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-01 S. A. Franchino-Viñas , S. Mignemi

In $D$ dimensional de Sitter space, a scalar field has an infinite tower of special tachyonic mass values at which enhanced shift symmetries appear. After modding out by these shift symmetries, these fields correspond to the unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Kara Farnsworth , Kurt Hinterbichler , Samanta Saha

The scalar-spinor interaction Lagrangian is presented by the Yukawa potential. In dS ambient space formalism, the interaction Lagrangian of scalar-spinor fields was obtained from a new transformation which is very similar to the guage…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Y. Ahmadi

For a special value of the mass, a massive graviton on de Sitter space acquires an enhanced scalar gauge symmetry, and is called partially massless. The partially massless graviton possesses a duality invariance akin to electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Kurt Hinterbichler

We study the phenomenon of mass loss by a scalar charge -- a point particle that acts a source for a noninteracting scalar field -- in an expanding universe. The charge is placed on comoving world lines of two cosmological spacetimes: a de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Lior M. Burko , Abraham I. Harte , Eric Poisson

We consider a real massive free quantum scalar field with arbitrary curvature coupling on $n$-dimensional anti-de Sitter space-time. We use Hadamard renormalization to find the vacuum expectation values of the quadratic field fluctuations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-18 Carl Kent , Elizabeth Winstanley

We review recent discussions concerning the definition of a quantum field theory in a curved and noncommutative space, the Snyder--de Sitter space. For a quartic self-interacting scalar field in a spacetime of arbitrary dimension, we show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 S. A. Franchino-Viñas , S. Mignemi

We show how the equations for the scalar field (including the massive, massless, minimally and conformally coupled cases) on de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter spaces can be obtained from both the SO$(2,4)$-invariant equation $\square \phi = 0$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-11 E. Huguet , J. Queva , J. Renaud

We generalize key aspects of arXiv:1010.5367 (and also arXiv:1010.5327) to the case of {\em massless} $\lambda \phi^{2n}$ quantum field theory on deSitter spacetime. As in that paper, our key objective is to derive a suitable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Stefan Hollands

A system of generalized coherent states for the de Sitter group obeying Klein-Gordon equation and corresponding to the massive spin zero particles over the de Sitter space is considered. This allows us to construct the quantized scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Semyon Pol'shin