Dynamical RG and critical phenomena in De Sitter space

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)064zbMATH Open1436.85003arXiv2001.05974OpenAlexW3000336448MaRDI QIDQ780709FDOQ780709

D. Kharzeev

Publication date: 15 July 2020

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

Abstract: Perturbative quantum field theory in de Sitter space is known to give rise to a variety of contributions that diverge with time (secular terms). Despite significant progress, a complete understanding of the physical origin of these divergences remains an outstanding problem. In this paper, we will study the origin of secular divergences in de Sitter space for interacting theories that are near attractive conformal fixed points. We show that the secular divergences are determined by the anomalous dimensions of the same theory in flat space and can be re-summed using the dynamical renormalization group. This behavior is mandatory at the conformal fixed point but we show that it holds away from the fixed point as well. We analyze this problem in general using conformal perturbation theory and study conformally coupled scalar fields in four and $4-epsilon$ dimensions as examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05974

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryrenormalization groupcosmology of theories beyond the standard model (SM)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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