The need to renormalize the cosmological constant

We consider the massless, minimally coupled scalar on de Sitter background. Although the 1-loop divergences of the graviton 1PI 2-point function are canceled by the usual Weyl (C2) and Eddington (R2) counterterms, there is still a finite, nonzero contribution to the graviton 1-point function. Unless...

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Main Authors: N.C. Tsamis, R.P. Woodard, B. Yesilyurt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-02-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269324000315