Abstract
We analyze infrared divergences arising in calculations involving light and massless fields in de Sitter space. We show that these arise from an incorrect treatment of the constant mode of the field and that a correct quantization leads to a well-defined and calculable perturbation expansion. We illustrate this by computing the first nontrivial loop correction in a theory of a massless scalar field with a quartic interaction.
- Received 22 September 2010
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.123522
© 2010 The American Physical Society