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arXiv 1201.0768hep-thastro-ph.COgr-qchep-ph
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暴胀和熵扰动中的IR发散

IR Divergences in Inflation and Entropy Perturbations

Wei Xue, Xian Gao, Robert Brandenberger

摘要:

研究了慢卷暴胀背景下描述曲率微扰的标量场的两点关联函数的首阶微扰修正,特别注意熵模环的贡献.我们发现,红外发散比在纯de Sitter空间中更差:它们是幂律而不是对数律。微扰论的有效性和宇宙学扰动的有效场论的有效性导致了描述相互作用的耦合常数的严格限制,在我们的模型中,熵场的四次自相互作用耦合常数。如果自耦合常数大于某个临界值,而这个临界值特别取决于暴胀阶段的持续时间,那么微扰论就失效了。我们的分析可能对de Sitter空间的稳定性有影响:在熵涨落存在的情况下,导致de Sitter空间不稳定性的量子效应的量级会更大。

英文摘要:

We study leading order perturbative corrections to the two point correlation function of the scalar field describing the curvature perturbation in a slow-roll inflationary background, paying particular attention to the contribution of entropy mode loops. We find that the infrared divergences are worse than in pure de Sitter space: they are power law rather than logarithmic. The validity of perturbation theory and thus of the effective field theory of cosmological perturbations leads to stringent constraints on the coupling constants describing the interactions, in our model the quartic self-interaction coupling constant of the entropy field. If the self coupling constant is larger than some critical value which depends in particular on the duration of the inflationary phase, then perturbation theory breaks down. Our analysis may have implications for the stability of de Sitter space: the quantum effects which lead to an instability of de Sitter space will be larger in magnitude in the presence of entropy fluctuations.

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