Thursday, November 3, 2011

1105.4539 (Julien Serreau)

Effective potential for quantum scalar fields on a de Sitter geometry    [PDF]

Julien Serreau
We study the quantum theory of an O(N) scalar field on de Sitter geometry at leading order in a nonperturbative 1/N-expansion. This resums the infinite series of so-called superdaisy loop diagrams. We obtain the de Sitter symmetric solutions of the corresponding, properly renormalized, dynamical field equations and compute the complete effective potential. Because of its self-interactions, the field acquires a strictly positive square mass which screens potential infrared divergences. Moreover, strongly enhanced ultralong-wavelength fluctuations prevent the existence of a spontaneously broken symmetry state in any dimension.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4539

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