The Vacuum of de~Sitter Space

Details The Vacuum of de~Sitter Space The Vacuum of de~Sitter Space

1994-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9405026v2

Acta Phys.Polon. B26 (1995) 65-90

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

31 pages, no figures, UM-TH-94-14. (Compile twice with LaTeX.) Amended 5/13/94 to add a citation

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To resolve infrared problems with the de~Sitter invariant vacuum, we argue that the history of the de~Sitter phase is crucial. We illustrate how either (1)~the diagonalization of the Hamiltonian for long-wavelength modes or (2)~an explicit modification of the metric in the distant past leads to natural infrared cutoffs. The former case resembles a bosonic superconductor in which graviton-pairing occurs between non-adiabatic modes. While the dynamical equations respect de~Sitter symmetry, the vacuum is not de~Sitter invariant because of the introduction of an initial condition at a finite time. The implications for the one-loop stress tensor and the production of particles are also discussed.

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