Covariant Quantization of the Partially Massless Graviton Field in de Sitter Spacetime

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العنوان: Covariant Quantization of the Partially Massless Graviton Field in de Sitter Spacetime
المؤلفون: Gazeau, Jean-Pierre, Pejhan, Hamed
المصدر: Phys. Rev. D 108, 065012 (2023)
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Mathematics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Theory, Mathematical Physics
الوصف: We present a covariant quantization scheme for the so-called "partially massless" graviton field in de Sitter spacetime. Our approach is founded on the principles of the de Sitter group representation theory (in the sense given by Wigner), the Wightman-G\"{a}rding axioms for gauge-invariant fields (Gupta-Bleuler scheme), and the essential analyticity prerequisites in the complexified pseudo-Riemannian manifold. To implement the quantization process effectively, we adopt coordinate-independent (global) de Sitter plane waves. These plane waves, defined in the appropriate tube domains of complex de Sitter spacetime, serve as the de Sitter counterparts to the standard Minkowskian plane waves. By employing these analytical plane waves, we enable a spectral analysis of the corresponding two-point function that closely resembles the Fourier analysis typically employed in the flat Minkowskian case. Within this framework, we present the Wightman two-point function for the partially massless graviton field, which satisfies the essential criteria of locality, covariance, and normal analyticity. Furthermore, we provide insights into the underlying Hilbert space structure and the corresponding unsmeared field operator. A direct consequence of this quantization construction confirms the widely accepted notion of light-cone propagation for the de Sitter partially massless graviton field.
Comment: 24 pages, no figure, version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.065012
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10086
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2306.10086
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.108.065012