Infrared sensitivity of unstable vacua

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.03.025zbMATH Open1215.83032arXiv1012.2107OpenAlexW2012894959MaRDI QIDQ545278FDOQ545278

Authors: Dmitry Krotov, Alexander M. Polyakov 

Publication date: 22 June 2011

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discover that some unstable vacua have long memory. By that we mean that even in the theories containing only massive particles, there are correllators and expectation values which grow with time. We examine the cases of instabilities caused by the constant electric fields, expanding and contracting universes and, most importantly, the global de Sitter space. In the last case the interaction leads to a remarkable UV/IR mixing and to a large back reaction. This gives reasons to believe that the cosmological constant problem could be resolved by the infrared physics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2107

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zbMATH Keywords

de Sitter spacebackreactioncosmological constant problemIR effectsparticle production in constant electric field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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