Quantum de Sitter Entropy and Sphere Partition Functions: A-Hypergeometric Approach to Higher Loop Corrections

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel hypergeometric approach to compute higher loop Feynman integrals on the sphere, enabling quantum corrections to de Sitter entropy to be systematically analyzed.

Contribution

It develops a new method to express scalar and vector Feynman integrals on the sphere as A-hypergeometric series, facilitating higher loop calculations in quantum gravity.

Findings

Scalar Feynman integrals are expressed as A-hypergeometric series.

Vector Feynman integrals are represented as sums over scalar integrals.

The approach generalizes to include massive and massless fields with arbitrary spin.

Abstract

In order to find quantum corrections to the de Sitter entropy, a new approach to higher loop Feynman integral computations on the sphere is presented. Arbitrary scalar Feynman integrals on a spherical background are brought into the generalized Euler integral (A-hypergeometric series/GKZ system) form by expressing the massive scalar propagator as a quotient of a bivariate radial Mellin transform of the massless scalar propagator in one higher dimensional Euclidean flat space. This formulation is expanded to include massive and massless vector fields by construction of similar embedding space propagators. Vector Feynman integrals are shown to be sums over generalized Euler integrals formed of underlying scalar Feynman integrals. Granting existence of general spin embedding space propagators, the same is shown to be true for general spin Feynman integrals.