Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Dec 1974
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974phrvd..10.3905f&link_type=abstract
Physical Review D, vol. 10, Issue 12, pp. 3905-3924
Mathematics
Logic
108
Scientific paper
In preparation for an investigation of whether field-theoretic effects helped to make the early universe become isotropic, we seek to determine the physical (divergence-free) energy-momentum tensor through which the geometry of spacetime is influenced by a quantized scalar field with conformal ("new improved") coupling to the metric. The cosmological models studied are the Kasner-like (type I) metrics (homogeneous, spatially flat, nonrotating, but anisotropic), and also the isotropic Robertson-Walker metrics. The methods employed have previously been expounded in the context of a minimally coupled scalar field and a Robertson-Walker metric. Three divergent leading terms are extracted from an adiabatic expansion of the formal expressions for the expectation values of the energy density and pressures. In the Kasner case a slight reshuffling of the leading terms in the energy density displays all divergences to be proportional to either the metric tensor or a second-order curvature tensor which vanishes when the spacetime is isotropic; hence a finite energy-momentum tensor remains after renormalization of the cosmological constant and one other coupling constant in a generalized Einstein equation. In the Robertson-Walker cases, because of conformal flatness, there is no divergence beyond the usual quartically divergent constant vacuum energy; when the mass is not zero, however, a finite renormalization of the gravitational constant is suggested. The correctness of the methods is tested by considering a coordinate system in which flat spacetime assumes the form of a Kasner universe: The adiabatic definition of particle number and vacuum, which is basic to our expansion and renormalization methods, is seen to be consistent with the usual flat-space concepts.
Fulling Stephen A.
Hu Liang-Bin
Parker Leonard
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