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Hadamard Regularization of the Graviton Stress Tensor

Published 25 Mar 2024 in hep-th, astro-ph.CO, and gr-qc | (2403.16806v1)

Abstract: We present the details for the covariant renormalization of the stress tensor for vacuum tensor perturbations at the level of the effective action, adopting Hadamard regularization techniques to isolate short distance divergences and gauge fixing via the Faddeev-Popov procedure. The subsequently derived renormalized stress tensor can be related to more familiar forms reliant upon an averaging prescription, such as the Isaacson or Misner-Thorne-Wheeler forms. The latter, however, are premised on a prior scale separation (beyond which the averaging is invoked) and therefore unsuited for the purposes of renormalization. This can lead to potentially unphysical conclusions when taken as a starting point for the computation of any observable that needs regularization, such as the energy density associated to a stochastic background. Any averaging prescription, if needed, should only be invoked at the end of the renormalization procedure. The latter necessarily involves the imposition of renormalization conditions via a physical measurement at some fixed scale, which we retrace for primordial gravitational waves sourced from vacuum fluctuations through direct or indirect observation.

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