3 papers
gr-qc2024
The Other ADM
R. P. Woodard, B. Yesilyurt
In the peculiar manner by which physicists reckon descent, this article is by a "child" and "grandchild" of the late Stanley Deser. We begin by sharing reminiscences of Stanley fro…
gr-qc2024
The Third Structure Function
S. P. Miao, N. C. Tsamis, R. P. Woodard +1
We re-consider the graviton self-energy induced by a loop of massless, minimally coupled scalars on de Sitter background. On flat space background it can be represented as a sum of…
gr-qc2023
The Need to Renormalize the Cosmological Constant
N. C. Tsamis, R. P. Woodard, B. Yesilyurt
We consider the massless, minimally coupled scalar on de Sitter background. Although the 1-loop divergences of the graviton 1PI 2-point function are canceled by the usual Weyl ($C^…