Super-acceleration from massless, minimally coupled \phi4

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DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/17/311zbMATH Open1023.83025arXivgr-qc/0204065OpenAlexW3122422913WikidataQ60154349 ScholiaQ60154349MaRDI QIDQ4789688FDOQ4789688


Authors: V. K. Onemli, R. P. Woodard Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 13 May 2003

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

Abstract: We derive a simple form for the propagator of a massless, minimally coupled scalar in a locally de Sitter geometry of arbitrary spacetime dimension. We then employ it to compute the fully renormalized stress tensor at one and two loop orders for a massless, minimally coupled phi^4 theory which is released in Bunch-Davies vacuum at t=0 in co-moving coordinates. In this system the uncertainty principle elevates the scalar above the minimum of its potential, resulting in a phase of super-acceleration. With the non-derivative self-interaction the scalar's breaking of de Sitter invariance becomes observable. It is also worth noting that the weak energy condition is violated on cosmological scales. An interesting subsidiary result is that canceling overlapping divergences in the stress tensor requires a conformal counterterm which has no effect on purely scalar diagrams.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0204065




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