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@article{Cable:2024:10.1103/PhysRevD.109.045017,
author = {Cable, A and Rajantie, A},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.109.045017},
journal = {Physical Review D},
title = {Stochastic parameters for scalar fields in de Sitter spacetime},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.045017},
volume = {109},
year = {2024}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The stochastic effective theory approach, often called stochastic inflation, is widely used in cosmologyto describe scalar field dynamics during inflation. The existing formulations are, however, more qualitativethan quantitative because the connection to the underlying quantum field theory (QFT) has not been properly established. A concrete sign of this is that the QFT parameters depend on the renormalization scale, and therefore the relation between the QFT and stochastic theory must have explicit scale dependence that cancels it. In this paper we achieve that by determining the parameters of the second-order stochastic effective theory of light scalar fields in de Sitter to linear order in the self-coupling constant λ. This is done by computing equal-time 2-point correlators to one-loop order both in QFT using dimensional regularization and the MS renormalization scheme and the equal-time 4-point correlator to leading order in both theories, and demanding that the results obtained in the two theories agree. With these parameters,the effective theory is valid when m  H and λ2  m4=H4, and therefore it is applicable in cases where neither perturbation theory nor any previously proposed stochastic effective theories are.
AU  - Cable,A
AU  - Rajantie,A
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.045017
PY  - 2024///
SN  - 2470-0010
TI  - Stochastic parameters for scalar fields in de Sitter spacetime
T2  - Physical Review D
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.045017
UR  - https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.045017
VL  - 109
ER  -
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