With the help of the general theory of the Heun equation, this paper completes previous work by the authors and other groups on the explicit representation of the massive gravitino propagator in four-dimensional de Sitter space. As a result of our original contribution, all weight functions whichmultiply the geometric invariants in the gravitino propagator are expressed through Heun functions, and the resulting plots are displayed and discussed after resorting to a suitable truncation in the series expansion of the Heun function. It turns out that there exist two ranges of values of the independent variable in which the weight functions can be divided into dominant and sub-dominant families.

On the complete analytic structure of the massive gravitino propagator in four-dimensional de Sitter space / Esposito, G; Roychowdhury, R. - In: GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION. - ISSN 0001-7701. - 42:5(2010), pp. 1221-1238. [10.1007/s10714-009-0904-9]

On the complete analytic structure of the massive gravitino propagator in four-dimensional de Sitter space

ESPOSITO G
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2010

Abstract

With the help of the general theory of the Heun equation, this paper completes previous work by the authors and other groups on the explicit representation of the massive gravitino propagator in four-dimensional de Sitter space. As a result of our original contribution, all weight functions whichmultiply the geometric invariants in the gravitino propagator are expressed through Heun functions, and the resulting plots are displayed and discussed after resorting to a suitable truncation in the series expansion of the Heun function. It turns out that there exist two ranges of values of the independent variable in which the weight functions can be divided into dominant and sub-dominant families.
2010
On the complete analytic structure of the massive gravitino propagator in four-dimensional de Sitter space / Esposito, G; Roychowdhury, R. - In: GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION. - ISSN 0001-7701. - 42:5(2010), pp. 1221-1238. [10.1007/s10714-009-0904-9]
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