Renormalization of nonequilibrium dynamics in FRW cosmology
Jun, 199717 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 56 (1997) 6556-6565
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- hep-ph/9706274 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- DO-TH-97-11
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We derive the renormalized nonequilibrium equations of motion for a scalar field and its quantum back reaction in a conformally flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. We use a fully covariant formalism proposed by us recently for handling numerically and analytically nonequilibrium dynamics in one-loop approximation. The system is assumed to be in a conformal vacuum state initially. We use dimensional regularization; we find that the counter terms can be chosen independent of the initial conditions though the divergent leading order graphs do depend on them.Note:
- 14 pages, RevTeX, some obvious typos corrected
- 98.80.Cq
- 11.10.Gh
- 11.15.Kc
- 11.10.Wx
- Friedman model
- space-time: Robertson-Walker
- field theory: scalar
- effect: back reaction
- renormalization
- perturbation theory
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