The fermion self-energy during inflation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/5/016zbMATH Open1094.83016arXivgr-qc/0511140OpenAlexW2171278593WikidataQ60154325 ScholiaQ60154325MaRDI QIDQ3377907FDOQ3377907

Authors: S. P. Miao, R. P. Woodard 

Publication date: 29 March 2006

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute the one loop fermion self-energy for massless Dirac + Einstein in the presence of a locally de Sitter background. We employ dimensional regularization and obtain a fully renormalized result by absorbing all divergences with BPHZ counterterms. An interesting technical aspect of this computation is the need for a noninvariant counterterm owing to the breaking of de Sitter invariance by our gauge condition. Our result can be used in the quantum-corrected Dirac equation to search for inflation-enhanced quantum effects from gravitons, analogous to those which have been found for massless, minimally coupled scalars.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511140

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zbMATH Keywords

Regularizationde Sitter spacetimeBPHZ countertermsMassless Dirac-Einstein equationsSelf-Energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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