Renormalised fermion vacuum expectation values on anti-de Sitter space–time

Abstract

The Schwinger–de Witt and Hadamard methods are used to obtain renormalised vacuum expectation values for the fermion condensate, charge current and stress-energy tensor of a quantum fermion field of arbitrary mass on four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space–time. The quantum field is in the global anti-de Sitter vacuum state. The results are compared with those obtained using the Pauli–Villars and zeta-function regularisation methods, respectively.

Keywords

• Fermion field
• Anti-de Sitter space–time
• Hadamard renormalisation