The Fate of the Alpha-Vacuum
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✦ hep-th
hep-ph
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invariantloopscalarsittertheoryvacuaalpha-vacuumbunch-davies
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de Sitter space-time has a one complex parameter family of invariant vacua for the theory of a free, massive scalar field. For most of these vacua, in an interacting scalar theory the one loop corrections diverge linearly for large values of the loop momentum. These divergences are not of a form that can be removed by a de Sitter invariant counterterm, except in the case of the Euclidean, or Bunch-Davies, vacuum.
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