Vacuum radiation and symmetry breaking in conformally invariant quantum field theory

DOI10.1007/S002200050532zbMATH Open0914.53041arXivhep-th/9705049OpenAlexW3100544357MaRDI QIDQ1284074FDOQ1284074

Víctor Aldaya, Manuel Calixto, Jose M. Cerveró

Publication date: 30 March 1999

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The underlying reasons for the difficulty of unitarily implementing the whole conformal group $SO(4,2)$ in a massless Quantum Field Theory (QFT) are investigated in this paper. Firstly, we demonstrate that the singular action of the subgroup of special conformal transformations (SCT), on the standard Minkowski space $M$, cannot be primarily associated with the vacuum radiation problems, the reason being more profound and related to the dynamical breakdown of part of the conformal symmetry (the SCT subgroup, to be more precise) when representations of null mass are selected inside the representations of the whole conformal group. Then we show how the vacuum of the massless QFT radiates under the action of SCT (usually interpreted as transitions to a uniformly accelerated frame) and we calculate exactly the spectrum of the outgoing particles, which proves to be a generalization of the Planckian one, this recovered as a given limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705049

zbMATH Keywords

conformal symmetryconformal transformationsvacuum radiation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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