Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2004-06-23
Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 044013
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
28 pages, LaTeX
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.044013
Field theory in de Sitter space admits a one-parameter family of vacua determined by a superselection parameter alpha. Of these vacua, the Euclidean vacuum uniquely extrapolates to the vacuum of flat Minkowski space. States which resemble the alpha-vacua can be constructed as excitations above the Euclidean vacuum. Such states have modes alpha(k) which decay faster that k^{(1-d)/2}. Fields in such states exhibit non-local correlations when examined from the perspective of fields in the Euclidean vacuum. The dynamics of such entangled states are fully consistent. If an alpha-state with properties that interpolate between an alpha-vacuum and the Euclidean vacuum were the initial condition for inflation, a signature for this may be found in a momentum dependent correction to the inflationary power spectrum. The functional formalism, which provides the tool for examining physics in an alpha-state, extends to fields of other spin. In particular, the extension to spin-2 may proffer a new class of infrared modifications to gravitational interactions. The implications of superselection sectors for the landscape of string vacua are briefly discussed.
Boer Jan de
Jejjala Vishnu
Minic Djordje
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