Adiabatic regularization for massive and massless spin-$1$ fields
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| author | Marañón-González, F. Javier Navarro-Salas, José |
| author_facet | Marañón-González, F. Javier Navarro-Salas, José |
| contents | The adiabatic regularization method is likely the most direct and intuitive renormalization scheme for FLRW cosmologies. The method requires one to start with a nonvanishing mass, but massless theories can be studied by taking the massless limit at the end of the calculations. For spin-$1$, however, this limit changes the number of degrees of freedom, so it cannot be performed directly. In this work, we show a direct approach that begins with the canonical quantization of the physical degrees of freedom of a massive Proca field. We give the details of the construction and show that, in the massless limit, the renormalized stress-energy tensor of the Proca field is closely related to that of a minimally coupled scalar field. For completeness and pedagogical purposes, we also include a brief orientation to the adiabatic method for scalar fields. The construction of the adiabatic subtractions in momentum space is compared with that of the BPHZ method for renormalizing Feynman loop integrals. |
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| spellingShingle | Adiabatic regularization for massive and massless spin-$1$ fields Marañón-González, F. Javier Navarro-Salas, José General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory The adiabatic regularization method is likely the most direct and intuitive renormalization scheme for FLRW cosmologies. The method requires one to start with a nonvanishing mass, but massless theories can be studied by taking the massless limit at the end of the calculations. For spin-$1$, however, this limit changes the number of degrees of freedom, so it cannot be performed directly. In this work, we show a direct approach that begins with the canonical quantization of the physical degrees of freedom of a massive Proca field. We give the details of the construction and show that, in the massless limit, the renormalized stress-energy tensor of the Proca field is closely related to that of a minimally coupled scalar field. For completeness and pedagogical purposes, we also include a brief orientation to the adiabatic method for scalar fields. The construction of the adiabatic subtractions in momentum space is compared with that of the BPHZ method for renormalizing Feynman loop integrals. |
| title | Adiabatic regularization for massive and massless spin-$1$ fields |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01963 |