Adiabatic regularisation for scalar fields with arbitrary coupling to the scalar curvature
- 1 April 1980
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 13 (4) , 1297-1310
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/13/4/022
Abstract
Adiabatic regularisation is applied to a scalar field propagating in a Robertson-Walker universe with arbitrary coupling to the scalar curvature. Explicit expressions for the expectation value of the quantum stress tensor in an adiabatic vacuum are obtained. This calculation yields the terms which are to be subtracted from the divergent mode-sum expressions for expectation values of the stress tensor to give a finite, renormalised stress tensor. It is shown that the removal of the infinite terms in this subtraction procedure corresponds to the renormalisation of coupling constants in Einstein's equation. A short description is given of the way in which adiabatic regularisation produces a trace anomaly.Keywords
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