Curvature expansion of the heat kernel and effective action is derived for quasi-thermal non-vacuum gravitational backgrounds using a covariant generalized Killing vector field.
Stress Tensor Correlators in the Schwinger-Keldysh Formalism
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We express stress tensor correlators using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. The absence of off-diagonal counterterms in this formalism ensures that the +- and -+ correlators are free of primitive divergences. We use dimensional regularization in position space to explicitly check this at one loop order for a massless scalar on a flat space background. We use the same procedure to show that the ++ correlator contains the divergences first computed by `t Hooft and Veltman for the scalar contribution to the graviton self-energy.
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Gauge dependence cancels in the one-loop effective scalar equation in de Sitter when all diagram contributions including external mode corrections are collected.
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Non-vacuum gravitational effective action
Curvature expansion of the heat kernel and effective action is derived for quasi-thermal non-vacuum gravitational backgrounds using a covariant generalized Killing vector field.
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Cancellation of one-parameter graviton gauge dependence in the effective scalar field equation in de Sitter
Gauge dependence cancels in the one-loop effective scalar equation in de Sitter when all diagram contributions including external mode corrections are collected.