A quantum weak energy inequality for Dirac fields in curved spacetime

DOI10.1007/S002200100584zbMATH Open1026.83028arXivmath-ph/0105027OpenAlexW3122014448MaRDI QIDQ1348980FDOQ1348980

Authors: Christopher J. Fewster, Rainer Verch 

Publication date: 21 May 2002

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

Abstract: Quantum fields are well known to violate the weak energy condition of general relativity: the renormalised energy density at any given point is unbounded from below as a function of the quantum state. By contrast, for the scalar and electromagnetic fields it has been shown that weighted averages of the energy density along timelike curves satisfy `quantum weak energy inequalities' (QWEIs) which constitute lower bounds on these quantities. Previously, Dirac QWEIs have been obtained only for massless fields in two-dimensional spacetimes. In this paper we establish QWEIs for the Dirac and Majorana fields of mass $mge0$ on general four-dimensional globally hyperbolic spacetimes, averaging along arbitrary smooth timelike curves with respect to any of a large class of smooth compactly supported positive weights. Our proof makes essential use of the microlocal characterisation of the class of Hadamard states, for which the energy density may be defined by point-splitting.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0105027

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zbMATH Keywords

microlocal analysisHadamard statesglobally hyperbolic space-timequantum Dirac fieldquantum weak energy inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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