Group averaging of massless scalar fields in 1 + 1 de Sitter

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/26/3/035001MaRDI QIDQ3612136zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Donald Marolf, Ian A. Morrison

Publication date 3 March 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2174

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: Perturbative gravity in global de Sitter space is subject to so-called linearization stability constraints: If they are to couple consistently to the gravitational field, quantum states must be invariant under the de Sitter isometries. While standard Fock spaces contain no de Sitter-invariant states apart from (possibly) the vacuum, a full Hilbert space of de Sitter-invariant quantum states can be constructed via group averaging techiniques. We re-examine the simple toy model of de Sitter group averaging given by the free 1+1 scalar field, expanding on an earlier analysis by Higuchi. Our purpose is twofold: to include the scalar zero-mode, and to explicitly count the number of de Sitter-invariant states as a function of an appropriately defined energy.

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