Light scalars on cosmological backgrounds

Abstract We study the behaviour of a light quartically self-interacting scalar field ϕ on curved backgrounds that may be described with the cosmological equation state parameter w. At leading order in the non-perturbative 2PI expansion we find a general formula for the variance ϕ^2 $$ \left\langle {...

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Main Author: Tommi Markkanen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP01(2018)116