October 28, 2024 to November 1, 2024
CERN
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On adiabatic renormalization with an infrared cut-off

Oct 31, 2024, 12:10 PM
20m
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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Pietro Conzinu

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We describe a new approach to renormalize physical quantities in curved space-time introducing a comoving infrared cut-off in defining the adiabatic counterpart of the physical quantity under consideration. This infrared cut-off is fundamental to avoid unphysical divergences that can be generated by a pathological behavior of the adiabatic subtraction extended to the infrared domain. Applying such formalism to symptomatic case of U(1)-axion inflation model, we evaluate properly the expectation value of gauge contribution setting the cut-off by the conformal anomaly.

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