Chiral symmetry and curvature bounds in de Sitter spacetime

Abstract

We study chiral symmetry breaking in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model on a de Sitter background, treating it as a non-renormalizable effective field theory with a physical ultraviolet cutoff. Using exponential proper-time regularization, we obtain an exact solution for the constituent fermion mass in the strong-curvature regime via the Lambert $W$ function. The consistency condition for real-valued solutions leads to an upper bound on the cosmological constant, indicating a limitation of the mean-field description rather than a fundamental physical constraint on the spacetime geometry.