Thermodynamics, Euclidean gravity and Kaluza-Klein reduction

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/18/303MaRDI QIDQ2768090zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. V. Fursaev, A. Zelnikov

Publication date 3 September 2002

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0104027

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to find out a correspondence between one-loop effective action $W_E$ defined by means of path integral in Euclidean gravity and the free energy $F$ obtained by summation over the modes. The analysis is given for quantum fields on stationary space-times of a general form. For such problems a convenient procedure of a "Wick rotation" from Euclidean to Lorentzian theory becomes quite non-trivial implying transition from one real section of a complexified space-time manifold to another. We formulate conditions under which $F$ and $W_E$ can be connected and establish an explicit relation of these functionals. Our results are based on the Kaluza-Klein method which enables one to reduce the problem on a stationary space-time to equivalent problem on a static space-time in the presence of a gauge connection. As a by-product, we discover relation between the asymptotic heat-kernel coefficients of elliptic operators on a $D$ dimensional stationary space-times and the heat-kernel coefficients of a $D-1$ dimensional elliptic operators with an Abelian gauge connection.

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