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Semiclassical analysis of pair creation in de Sitter space

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We study a massive scalar field theory in de Sitter space. Using a worldline instanton approach, we calculate the pair creation probability in the weak-field limit. In addition to the exponential factor, we derive the pre-exponential factor. In this method, the pair creation probability for an odd-dimensional space vanishes. We find the leading contribution to the two-point correlator in the φ3 theory.

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Prepared from an English manuscript submitted by the author; for the Russian version, see Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 180, No. 1, pp. 72–85, July, 2014.

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Guts, S.V. Semiclassical analysis of pair creation in de Sitter space. Theor Math Phys 180, 815–826 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-014-0181-y

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