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arxiv: gr-qc/0408080 · v2 · submitted 2004-08-24 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph· hep-ph

Two Loop Scalar Self-Mass during Inflation

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keywords scalarloopmassalthoughbackgroundbunch-daviesclassicalcompetes
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We work in the locally de Sitter background of an inflating universe and consider a massless, minimally coupled scalar with a quartic self-interaction. We use dimensional regularization to compute the fully renormalized scalar self-mass-squared at one and two loop order for a state which is released in Bunch-Davies vacuum at t=0. Although the field strength and coupling constant renormalizations are identical to those of lfat space, the geometry induces a non-zero mass renormalization. The finite part also shows a sort of growing mass that competes with the classical force in eventually turning off this system's super-acceleration.

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