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The Fermion Self-Energy during Inflation

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arxiv gr-qc/0511140 v2 pith:FVTGR2LN submitted 2005-11-26 gr-qc astro-phhep-ph

Shun-Pei Miao , R. P. Woodard (University of Florida) This is my paper
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We compute the one loop fermion self-energy for massless Dirac + Einstein in the presence of a locally de Sitter background. We employ dimensional regularization and obtain a fully renormalized result by absorbing all divergences with BPHZ counterterms. An interesting technical aspect of this computation is the need for a noninvariant counterterm owing to the breaking of de Sitter invariance by our gauge condition. Our result can be used in the quantum-corrected Dirac equation to search for inflation-enhanced quantum effects from gravitons, analogous to those which have been found for massless, minimally coupled scalars.

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