Representing the graviton self-energy on de Sitter background

Katie E. Leonard, Sohyun Park, Tomislav Prokopec, and R. P. Woodard
Phys. Rev. D 90, 024032 – Published 11 July 2014

Abstract

We derive a noncovariant but simple representation for the self-energy of a conformally transformed graviton field on the cosmological patch of de Sitter. Our representation involves four structure functions, as opposed to the two that would be necessary for a manifestly de Sitter invariant representation. We work out what the four structure functions are for the one loop correction due to a massless, minimally coupled scalar and we employ the result to work out what happens to dynamical gravitons.

  • Received 5 March 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.024032

© 2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Katie E. Leonard1,*, Sohyun Park2,†, Tomislav Prokopec3,‡, and R. P. Woodard4,§

  • 1Applied Mathematics, Inc., 1622 Route 12, P.O. Box 637, Gales Ferry, Connecticut 06335, USA
  • 2Institute for Gravitation & the Cosmos, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
  • 3Institute of Theoretical Physics, Spinoza Institute and the Center for Extreme Matter and Emergent Phenomena (EMMEΦ), Utrecht University, Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • 4Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA

  • *keleonard262@gmail.com
  • spark@gravity.psu.edu
  • T.Prokopec@uu.nl
  • §woodard@phys.ufl.edu

See Also

Scalar contribution to the graviton self-energy during inflation

Sohyun Park and R. P. Woodard
Phys. Rev. D 83, 084049 (2011)

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Vol. 90, Iss. 2 — 15 July 2014

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