A Minimally Coupled Scalar Field on the Static De Sitter Space

Polarski, David

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.41.442

A Minimally Coupled Scalar Field on the Static De Sitter Space

David Polarski
(
- Saclay
)

Feb 16, 1990

28 pages

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Phys.Rev.D 41 (1990) 442

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.41.442

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We show that there exists no static vacuum for minimally coupled scalar fields on de Sitter space. We evaluate the difference of the trace of the energy-momentum tensor in the de Sitter-invariant and the static vacua for this case.

field theory: scalar
space-time: de Sitter
partial wave analysis
quantization
Hamiltonian formalism
vacuum state
propagator
tensor: energy-momentum
infrared problem
regularization

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