Topological surprises in de Sitter QFT in two-dimensions

DOI10.1142/S0217751X18450094zbMATH Open1405.81124arXiv1901.10874MaRDI QIDQ4611368FDOQ4611368

Henri Epstein, Ugo Moschella

Publication date: 18 January 2019

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by the study of soluble models of quantum field theory, we illustrate a new type of topological effect by comparing the constructions of canonical Klein-Gordon quantum fields on the two-dimensional de Sitter spacetime as opposed to its double covering. We show that the while commutators of the two fields coincide locally, the global topological differences make the theories drastically different. Many of the well-known features of de Sitter quantum field theory disappear. In particular there is nothing like a Bunch-Davies vacuum. Correspondingly, even though the local horizon structure is the same for the two universes there is no Hawking - Gibbons thermal state. Finally, there is no complementary series of fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10874

zbMATH Keywords

topologyde SitterHawking temperature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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