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Debye mass in de Sitter space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-07-04 v2

Abstract

We calculate the one-loop contributions to the polarization operator for scalar quantum electrodynamics in different external electromagnetic and gravitational fields. In the case of gravity, de-Sitter space and its different patches were considered. It is shown that the Debye mass appears only in the case of alpha-vacuum in the Expanding Poincare Patch. It can be shown either by direct computations or by using analytical and casual properties of the de-Sitter space. Also, the case of constant electric field is considered and the Debye mass is calculated.

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@article{arxiv.1711.11010,
  title  = {Debye mass in de Sitter space},
  author = {Fedor K. Popov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.11010},
  year   = {2018}
}

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21 pages, 3 figures

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