A uniqueness criterion for the Fock quantization of scalar fields with time-dependent mass

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/17/172001MaRDI QIDQ3173074zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jerónimo Cortez, Javier Olmedo, José M. Velhinho, G. A. Mena Marugán

Publication date 10 October 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5000

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: A major problem in the quantization of fields in curved spacetimes is the ambiguity in the choice of a Fock representation for the canonical commutation relations. There exists an infinite number of choices leading to different physical predictions. In stationary scenarios, a common strategy is to select a vacuum (or a family of unitarily equivalent vacua) by requiring invariance under the spacetime symmetries. When stationarity is lost, a natural generalization consists in replacing time invariance by unitarity in the evolution. We prove that, when the spatial sections are compact, the criterion of a unitary dynamics, together with the invariance under the spatial isometries, suffices to select a unique family of Fock quantizations for a scalar field with time dependent mass.

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