Gravitons enhance fermions during inflation
- 20 July 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 74 (2) , 024021
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 . We show that this also follows from making the Hartree approximation, although the numerical coefficients differ.
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