Oct 6 – 10, 2025
EIMI
Europe/Moscow timezone

On the relevance of quantum corrections to the matter stress-energy tensor in eternally expanding universes

Oct 7, 2025, 6:00 PM
20m
Main hall

Main hall

Session talk Section A: Mathematical methods in QFT Section A: Mathematical methods in QFT

Speaker

Kirill Kazarnovskii (MIPT)

Description

We study a toy-model of continuous infinite expansion of space-time with the flat start. We use as the gravitational background a conformaly flat metric with growing factor in conformal time. We aim to clarify some properties of quantum fields in such a gravitational background. In particular, we calculate one-loop corrections to the Keldysh propagator to verify the fact of secular growth of the occupation number and anomalous quantum average in the massless scalar field theory with selfinteractions and separately in the massive scalar field theory with $\xi=1/6$. We perform the calculation in arbitrary dimensions with the use of the Schwinger-Keldysh technique. We get a secular growth which is not of a kinetic type. We provide some results for the case of generic interaction $\frac{\lambda}{b!}\phi^b$.

Author

Co-author

Emil Akhmedov (MIPT and ITEP)

Presentation materials