Markovian dynamics in de Sitter

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/09/038zbMATH Open1486.83150arXiv2010.06604OpenAlexW3204731094MaRDI QIDQ5061981FDOQ5061981

Mehrdad Mirbabayi

Publication date: 14 March 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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 $lambdaph{i}^4$ theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06604

zbMATH Keywords

inflationquantum cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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