Representing the Graviton Self-Energy on de Sitter Background
arXiv:1403.0896 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.024032
Abstract
We derive a noncovariant but simple representation for the self-energy of a conformally transformed graviton field on the cosmological patch of de Sitter. Our representation involves four structure functions, as opposed to the two that would be necessary for a manifestly de Sitter invariant representation. We work out what the four structure functions are for the one loop correction due to a massless, minimally coupled scalar. And we employ the result to work out what happens to dynamical gravitons.
38 pages, no figures, uses LaTeX2e, version 2 (39 pages) revised for publication with many errors corrected
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