On the construction of Hartle-Hawking-Israel states across a static bifurcate Killing horizon

DOI10.1007/S11005-015-0745-2zbMATH Open1325.81129OpenAlexW3102396817MaRDI QIDQ490744FDOQ490744

Authors: Ko Sanders 

Publication date: 28 August 2015

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a linear scalar quantum field propagating in a space-time with a static bifurcate Killing horizon and a wedge reflection. We prove the existence of a Hadamard state which is pure, quasi-free, invariant under the Killing flow and which restricts to a double KMS state at the inverse Hawking temperature on the union of the exterior wedge regions. The existence of such a state was first conjectured by Hartle and Hawking (1976) and Israel (1976) for stationary black hole space times. Our result complements a uniqueness result of Kay and Wald (1991), who considered a general bifurcate Killing horizon and proved that a certain (large) subalgebra of the free field algebra admits at most one Hadamard state which is invariant under the Killing flow. In the presence of a wedge reflection this state reduces to a pure, quasi-free KMS state on the smaller subalgebra associated to one of the exterior wedge regions. Our result establishes the existence of such a state on the full algebra in the static case. Our proof follows the arguments of Sewell (1982) and Jacobson (1994), exploiting a Wick rotation in the Killing time coordinate to construct a corresponding Euclidean theory. Because the Killing time coordinate is ill-defined on the bifurcation surface we systematically replace it by a Gaussian normal coordinate. A crucial part of our proof is to establish that the Euclidean ground state satisfies the necessary analogs of analyticity and reflection positivity with respect to this coordinate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5537

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zbMATH Keywords

Hawking radiationquantum fields in curved spacetimethermal quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28)

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