Scalar tachyons in the de Sitter universe

DOI10.1007/S11005-010-0406-4zbMATH Open1196.81184arXiv1003.1396OpenAlexW3100605950MaRDI QIDQ993441FDOQ993441

Henri Epstein, Jacques Bros, Ugo Moschella

Publication date: 20 September 2010

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide a construction of a class of local and de Sitter covariant tachyonic quantum fields which exist for discrete negative values of the squared mass parameter and which have no Minkowskian counterpart. These quantum fields satisfy an anomalous non-homogeneous Klein-Gordon equation. The anomaly is a covariant field which can be used to select the physical subspace (of finite codimension) where the homogeneous tachyonic field equation holds in the usual form. We show that the model is local and de Sitter invariant on the physical space. Our construction also sheds new light on the massless minimally coupled field, which is a special instance of it.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1396

zbMATH Keywords

tachyonsquantum fields on curved spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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