Markovian dynamics in de Sitter

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Publication:5061981




Abstract: The equilibrium state of fields in the causal wedge of a dS observer is thermal, though realistic observers have only partial access to the state. To them, out-of-equilibrium states of a light scalar field appear to thermalize in a Markovian fashion. We show this by formulating a systematic expansion for tracing out the environment. As an example, we calculate the O(lambda) correction to the result of Starobinsky and Yokoyama for the relaxation exponents of lambdaphi4 theory.









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