Correlators, Feynman diagrams, and quantum no-hair in deSitter spacetime (Q1946832): Difference between revisions

The author provides a parametric representation for position-space Feynman integrals of a massive, self-interacting scalar field in deSitter space-time, for an arbitrary graph. These integrals are the building blocks of the perturbative expansion of deSitter correlation functions. The parametric integrals involve a multiple contour integral over parameters which are in correspondence with tree graphs, and more generally forests, within the graph. In this paper, the author also: 1) has found that the Feynman integral belong to a class of special functions called ``generalized \(H\)-functions'', which are a generalization of the hypergeometric function; 2) has discussed the renormalization and convergence of his parametric form of the Feynman integrals; 3) has used an alternative method, based on the use of the renormalization group flow equation, to give another proof of renormalizability; 4) has discussed the analytic properties of the Feynman integrals/correlators, in particular how to go from Euclidean to Lorentizan configurations via analytic continuation; 5) has used the parametric representation to show the exponential decay in time-like directions of the deSitter correlation functions, to arbitrary orders in perturbation theory. These results show that the correlation functions of essentially any state will approach that of the vacuum at late times, at an exponential rate. Such statement may be viewed as a quantum analog of the cosmic no hair theorem, for a test scalar field with a positive mass.