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An integral representation of the 1-loop partition function for charged scalars and spinors, minimally coupled to a uniform U(1) field on S2, is given in terms of SO(1, 2) Harish-Chandra group characters and evaluated exactly in terms of Hurwitz ζ-functions. Analytically continuing the U(1) field, we interpret the path integrals as quasicanonical partition functions in dS2 with an electric field. The character itself is obtained as a trace over states living at the future boundary of de Sitter and has a quasinormal mode expansion. The imaginary part of the partition function captures Schwinger pair creation in the static patch at finite temperature. The thermal enhancement is most noticeable for scalar masses below Hubble and leads to non-monotonicity of the current as a function of the field. This parameter range, when dimensionally reducing from a charged or rotating Nariai spacetime, is excluded by Swampland-inspired bounds. Around the AdS2 black hole, in contrast to dS2, there is a threshold to pair creation.
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Grewal, M., Parmentier, K. Characters, quasinormal modes, and Schwinger pairs in dS2 with flux. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 165 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2022)165
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