Testing an Ansatz for the Leading Secular Loop Corrections from Quantum Gravity during Inflation

Understand

It is widely believed that the leading secular loop corrections from quantum gravity can be subsumed into a coordinate redefinition.

• Hence the apparent infrared logarithm corrections to any quantity would be just the result of taking the expectation value of the tree order quantity at the transformed coordinates in the graviton vacuum.
• We term this the Transformation Ansatz and we compare its predictions against explicit one loop computations in Maxwell + Einstein and Dirac + Einstein on de Sitter background.
• In each case the ansatz fails.