The fermion self-energy during inflation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/5/016MaRDI QIDQ3377907zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors S. P. Miao, R. P. Woodard

Publication date 29 March 2006

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

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

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)

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.

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