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hep-th2012★ 32 cited
A Ground State for the Causal Diamond in 2 Dimensions
Niayesh Afshordi, Michel Buck, Fay Dowker +3
We apply a recent proposal for a distinguished ground state of a quantum field in a globally hyperbolic spacetime to the free massless scalar field in a causal diamond in two-dimen…
hep-th2010★ 52 cited
Inflation in models with Conformally Coupled Scalar fields: An application to the Noncommutative Spectral Action
Michel Buck, Malcolm Fairbairn, Mairi Sakellariadou
Slow-roll inflation is studied in theories where the inflaton field is conformally coupled to the Ricci scalar. In particular, the case of Higgs field inflation in the context of t…