The CWKB method of particle production near the chronology horizon

DOI10.1023/A:1015994313112MaRDI QIDQ1604885zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors R. Smith

Publication date 9 July 2002

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0205077

zbMATH Keywords

chronology horizoncosmologyparticle productionWKB method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the phenomenon of particle production of massles scalar field, in a model of spacetime where the chronology horizon could be formrd, using the method of complex time WKB approximation (CWKB). For the purpose, we take two examples in a model of spacetime, one already discussed by Sushkov, to show that the mode of particle production near chronology horizon possesses the similar characteristic features as are found while discussing particle production in time dependent curved background. We get identical results as that obtained by Sushkov in this direction. We find, in both the examples studied, that the total number of particles remain finite at the moment of the formation of the chronology horizon.

Review text

The authors, using method of the CWKB -- the complex time WKB approximation -- study the massless scalar particle production in spacetimes with a chronology horizon (with closed timelike curves at distant future). The method is applied to the two-dimensional model previously discussed by Shushkov. It reproduces known results and allows application to more general spacetimes.

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