Complex geodesics in de Sitter space

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DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2023)006arXiv2212.01398OpenAlexW4323045033MaRDI QIDQ6158501FDOQ6158501

Shira Chapman, Sameer U. Sheorey, Damián A. Galante, David Vegh, Eleanor Harris

Publication date: 31 May 2023

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The two-point function of a free massive scalar field on a fixed background can be evaluated in the large mass limit by using a semiclassical geodesic approximation. In de Sitter space, however, this poses a puzzle. Certain spacelike separated points are not connected by real geodesics despite the corresponding two-point function in the Bunch-Davies state being non-vanishing. We resolve this puzzle by considering complex geodesics after analytically continuing to the sphere. We compute one-loop corrections to the correlator and discuss the implications of our results to de Sitter holography.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01398







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