Large-distance behaviour of the graviton two-point function in de Sitter spacetime

Abstract

It is known that the graviton two-point function for the de Sitter invariant "Euclidean" vacuum in a physical gauge grows logarithmically with distance in spatially-flat de Sitter spacetime. We show that this logarithmic behaviour is a gauge artifact by explicitly demonstrating that the same behaviour can be reproduced by a pure-gauge two-point function.

19 pages, no figures, misprints and minor errors corrected

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