Super-Acceleration from Massless, Minimally Coupled $\phi^4$
Super-Acceleration from Massless, Minimally Coupled $\phi^4$
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DOI:
10.1088/0264-9381/19/17/311
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发表时间:
2002-04
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
V. Onemli;R. Woodard
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作者:
V. Onemli;R. Woodard
We derive a simple form for the propagator of a massless, minimally coupled scalar in a locally de Sitter geometry of arbitrary spacetime dimension. We then employ it to compute the fully renormalized stress tensor at one- and two-loop orders for a massless, minimally coupled 4 theory which is released in Bunch?Davies vacuum at t = 0 in co-moving coordinates. In this system, the uncertainty principle elevates the scalar above the minimum of its potential, resulting in a phase of super-acceleration. With the non-derivative self-interaction the scalar's breaking of de Sitter invariance becomes observable. It is also worth noting that the weak-energy condition is violated on cosmological scales. An interesting subsidiary result is that cancelling overlapping divergences in the stress tensor requires a conformal counterterm which has no effect on purely scalar diagrams.