The complex time WKB approximation and particle production

DOI10.1023/A:1001896416269MaRDI QIDQ1977591zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 1 April 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9902135

zbMATH Keywords

black holecomplex time WKB approximationde Sitter spacetimeparticle productionSchwarzschild spacetimeuniform electric field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: The complex time WKB (CWKB) approximation has been an effective technique to understand particle production in curved as well as in flat spacetime. Earlier we obtained the standard results on particle production in time dependent gauge in various curved spacetime. In the present work we generalize the technique of CWKB to the equivalent problems in space dependent gauge. Using CWKB, we first obtain the gauge invariant result for particle production in Minkowski spacetime in strong electric field. We then carry out particle production in de-Sitter spacetime in space dependent gauge and obtain the same result that we obtained earlier in time dependent gauge. The results obtained for de-Sitter spacetime has a obvious extension to particle production in black hole spacetime. It is found that the origin of Planckian spectrum is due to repeated reflections between the turning points. As mentioned earlier, it is now explicitly shown that particle production is accompanied by rotation of currents.

Review text

This paper is a critical review of particle production in curved spacetime and is a generalization with an extension to blackhole problems. The technique of complex time WKB (CWKB) is generalized to the space dependent gauge. Using CWKB, the gauge invariant result for particle production in Minkowski spacetime in a strong electric field is obtained. The particle production in de Sitter spacetime in space dependent gauge is carried out which coincides with earlier results derived in time dependent gauge. The results for de Sitter spacetime have an obvious extension to particle production in black hole spacetime. It is found that the origin of Planck spectrum is due to repeated reflections between the turning points.

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