Proof of the symmetry of the off-diagonal Hadamard/Seeley-DeWitt's coefficients in C^ Lorentzian manifolds by a ``local Wick rotation

DOI10.1007/S002200000202zbMATH Open0956.58019arXivgr-qc/9908068OpenAlexW3104692664MaRDI QIDQ1581652FDOQ1581652

Valter Moretti

Publication date: 8 October 2000

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

Abstract: Completing the results obtained in a previous paper, we prove the symmetry of Hadamard/Seeley-deWitt off-diagonal coefficients in smooth $D$-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds. To this end, it is shown that, in any Lorentzian manifold, a sort of ``local Wick rotation of the metric can be performed provided the metric is a locally analytic function of the coordinates and the coordinates are ``physical. No time-like Killing field is necessary. Such a local Wick rotation analytically continues the Lorentzian metric in a neighborhood of any point, or, more generally, in a neighborhood of a space-like (Cauchy) hypersurface, into a Riemannian metric. The continuation locally preserves geodesically convex neighborhoods. In order to make rigorous the procedure, the concept of a complex pseudo-Riemannian (not Hermitian or K"ahlerian) manifold is introduced and some features are analyzed. Using these tools, the symmetry of Hadamard/Seeley-deWitt off-diagonal coefficients is proven in Lorentzian analytical manifolds by analytical continuation of the (symmetric) Riemannian heat-kernel coefficients. This continuation is performed in geodesically convex neighborhoods in common with both the metrics. Then, the symmetry is generalized to $C^{i}nfty$ non analytic Lorentzian manifolds by approximating Lorentzian $C^{infty}$ metrics by analytic metrics in common geodesically convex neighborhoods. The symmetry requirement plays a central r^{o}le in the point-splitting renormalization procedure of the one-loop stress-energy tensor in curved spacetimes for Hadamard quantum states.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9908068

zbMATH Keywords

symmetryLorentzian manifoldsHadamard/Seeley-de Witt off-diagonal coefficientslocal Wick rotation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70)

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