Decoherence and ultraviolet divergences in quantum cosmology

Authors
Citation
Ay. Kamenshchik, Decoherence and ultraviolet divergences in quantum cosmology, NUCL PH B-P, 88, 2000, pp. 251-254
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS
ISSN journal
09205632 → ACNP
Volume
88
Year of publication
2000
Pages
251 - 254
Database
ISI
SICI code
0920-5632(200006)88:<251:DAUDIQ>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
We consider the problem of ultraviolet divergences in the decoherence facto r in quantum cosmology. It is shown that using dimensional regularization i t is not possible to obtained the consistent reduced density matrix. In the case of tracing out the bosonic inhomogeneous degrees of freedom one can g et a reasonable reduced density matrix showing decoherence properties using a conformal reparametrization of fields, which suppresses ultraviolet dive rgences. In the case of fermionic fields such a suppression can be achieved by performing of a non-local Bogoliubov transformation of Grassmann variab les.