Graviton loop corrections to vacuum polarization in de Sitter in a general covariant gauge

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/19/195014zbMATH Open1327.83115arXiv1504.00894OpenAlexW2163815561MaRDI QIDQ3453192FDOQ3453192

R. P. Woodard, S. P. Miao, D. Glavan, T. Prokopec

Publication date: 20 November 2015

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

Abstract: We evaluate the one-graviton loop contribution to the vacuum polarization on de Sitter background in a 1-parameter family of exact, de Sitter invariant gauges. Our result is computed using dimensional regularization and fully renormalized with BPHZ counterterms, which must include a noninvariant owing to the time-ordered interactions. Because the graviton propagator engenders a physical breaking of de Sitter invariance two structure functions are needed to express the result. In addition to its relevance for the gauge issue this is the first time a covariant gauge graviton propagator has been used to compute a noncoincident loop. A number of identities are derived which should facilitate further graviton loop computations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00894

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityde Sittervacuum polarizationgauge dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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