Gravitons enhance fermions during inflation

S. P. Miao, R. P. Woodard

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Abstract

We solve the effective Dirac equation for massless fermions during inflation in the simplest gauge, including all one loop corrections from quantum gravity. At late times the result for a spatial plane wave behaves as if the classical solution were subjected to a time-dependent field strength renormalization of Z2(t)=1-174πGH2ln(a)+O(G2). We show that this also follows from making the Hartree approximation, although the numerical coefficients differ.

Original languageEnglish
Article number024021
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume74
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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