Quantum effects in Friedmann - Robertson - Walker cosmologies

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/12/015zbMATH Open0839.53068arXivgr-qc/9508010OpenAlexW3101206135WikidataQ57514691 ScholiaQ57514691MaRDI QIDQ4864077FDOQ4864077

Authors: Gennaro Miele, Pietro Santorelli, Giampiero Esposito, L. Rosa 

Publication date: 22 February 1996

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

Abstract: Electrodynamics for self-interacting scalar fields in spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker space-times is studied. The corresponding one-loop field equation for the expectation value of the complex scalar field in the conformal vacuum is derived. For exponentially expanding universes, the equations for the Bogoliubov coefficients describing the coupling of the scalar field to gravity are solved numerically. They yield a non-local correction to the Coleman-Weinberg effective potential which does not modify the pattern of minima found in static de Sitter space. Such a correction contains a dissipative term which, accounting for the decay of the classical configuration in scalar field quanta, may be relevant for the reheating stage. The physical meaning of the non-local term in the semiclassical field equation is investigated by evaluating this contribution for various background field configurations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9508010

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zbMATH Keywords

electrodynamicsself-interacting scalar fieldsspatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-04)

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