Adiabatic regularization of the graviton stress-energy tensor in de Sitter space-time

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2004-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0407101v3

Phys.Rev.D71:023522,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

5 pages, revtex, final version accepted for publication in PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.71.023522

We study the renormalized energy-momentum tensor of gravitons in a de Sitter space-time. After canonically quantizing only the physical degrees of freedom, we adopt the standard adiabatic subtraction used for massless minimally coupled scalar fields as a regularization procedure and find that the energy density of gravitons in the E(3) invariant vacuum is proportional to H^4, where H is the Hubble parameter, but with a positive sign. According to this result the scalar expansion rate, which is gauge invariant in de Sitter space-time, is increased by the fluctuations. This implies that gravitons may then add to conformally coupled matter in driving the Starobinsky model of inflation.

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