Wednesday, November 7, 2012

1211.1342 (Katie E. Leonard et al.)

Representing the Vacuum Polarization on de Sitter    [PDF]

Katie E. Leonard, T. Prokopec, R. P. Woodard
Previous studies of the vacuum polarization on de Sitter have demonstrated that there is a simple, noncovariant representation of it in which the physics is transparent. There is also a cumbersome, covariant representation in which the physics is obscure. Despite being unwieldy, the latter form has a powerful appeal for those who are concerned about de Sitter invariance. We show that nothing is lost by employing the simple, noncovariant representation because there is a closed form procedure for converting its structure functions to those of the covariant representation. We also present a vastly improved technique for reading off the noncovariant structure functions from the primitive diagrams. And we discuss the issue of representing the vacuum polarization for a general metric background.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1342

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