The heat-kernel and the average effective potential

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29 May 1995

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9505172

Abstract

We discuss the definition of the average effective action in terms of the heat-kernel. As an example we examine a model describing a self-interacting scalar field, both in flat and curved background, and study the renormalization group flow of some of the parameters characterizing its effective potential. Some implications of the running of these parameters for inflationary cosmology are also briefly discussed.

Keywords

AVERAGE EFFECTIVE POTENTIAL
INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY
RENORMALIZATION GROUP
INTERACTING SCALAR
CURVED BACKGROUND
EFFECTIVE ACTION
HEAT KERNEL
GROUP FLOW

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Version 1, 1995-05-29, ArXiv
Published version: Physics Letters B, 356 (2-3), 205.

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