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Hadamard function, stress tensor, and de Sitter space

Denis Bernard and Antoine Folacci

  • Groupe d’Astrophysique Relativiste, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Observatoire de ParisMeudon, 92195 Meudon Principal Cédex, France

Phys. Rev. D 34, 2286 – Published 15 October, 1986

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.34.2286

Abstract

Using the ‘‘Hadamard’’ formalism, we derive the general expression of the renormalized vacuum expectation value of the stress tensor of a massive scalar field. We apply this formalism to the O(1,4)- and E(3)-invariant vacua of de Sitter space.

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