Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2005-05-23
Nucl.Phys. B724 (2005) 295-328
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
43 pages, LaTeX 2epsilon, 2 figures (uses epsfig), substantial changes to sections 5 and 8
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.06.031
During inflation explicit perturbative computations of quantum field theories which contain massless, non-conformal fields exhibit secular effects that grow as powers of the logarithm of the inflationary scale factor. Starobinskii's technique of stochastic inflation not only reproduces the leading infrared logarithms at each order in perturbation theory, it can sometimes be summed to reveal what happens when inflation has proceeded so long that the large logarithms overwhelm even very small coupling constants. It is thus a cosmological analogue of what the renormalization group does for the ultraviolet logarithms of quantum field theory, and generalizing this technique to quantum gravity is a problem of great importance. There are two significant differences between gravity and the scalar models for which stochastic formulations have so far been given: derivative interactions and the presence of constrained fields. We use explicit perturbative computations in two simple scalar models to infer a set of rules for stochastically formulating theories with these features.
Tsamis Nicholas C.
Woodard Richard P.
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