A Completely Regular Quantum Stress Tensor with $w < -1$

Details A Completely Regular Quantum Stress Tensor with $w < -1$ A Completely Regular Quantum Stress Tensor with $w < -1$

2009-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4811v1

Phys.Rev.D81:023508,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

23 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.023508

For many quantum field theory computations in cosmology it is not possible to use the flat space trick of obtaining full, interacting states by evolving free states over infinite times. State wave functionals must be specified at finite times and, although the free states suffice to obtain the lowest order effects, higher order corrections necessarily involve changes of the initial state. Failing to correctly change the initial state can result in effective field equations which diverge on the initial value surface, or which contain tedious sums of terms that redshift like inverse powers of the scale factor. In this paper we verify a conjecture from 2004 that the lowest order initial state correction can indeed absorb the initial value divergences and all the redshifting terms of the two loop expectation value of the stress tensor of a massless, minimally coupled scalar with a quartic self interaction on nondynamical de Sitter background.

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