Exploring the Rindler vacuum and the Euclidean plane

DOI10.1063/5.0004154MaRDI QIDQ5136160zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 25 November 2020

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09278

Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Measure (Gaussian, cylindrical, etc.) and integrals (Feynman, path, Fresnel, etc.) on manifolds (46T12)

Abstract: In flat spacetime, two inequivalent vacuum states which arise rather naturally are the Rindler vacuum (R) and the Minkowski vacuum (M). We disuss several aspects of the Rindler vacuum, concentrating on the propagator and Schwinger (heat) kernel defined using R, both in the Lorentzian and Euclidean sectors. We start by exploring an intriguing result due to Candelas and Raine , viz., that

G_{R}

, the Feynman propagator corresponding to R, can be expressed as a curious integral transform of

G_{M}

, the Feynman propagator in M. We show that, this relation actually follows from the well known result that,

G_{M}

can be written as a periodic sum of

G_{R}

, in the Rindler time

a u

, with the period

2 p i i

. We further show that, the integral transform result holds for a wide class of pairs of bi-scalars

(F_{M}, F_{R})

, provided

F_{M}

can be represented as a periodic sum of

F_{R}

with period

2 p i i

. We provide an explicit procedure to retrieve

F_{R}

from its periodic sum

F_{M}

, for a wide class of functions. An example of particular interest is the pair of Schwinger kernels

(K_{M}, K_{R})

, corresponding to the Minkowski and the Rindler vacua. We obtain explicit expression for

K_{R}

and clarify several conceptual and technical issues related to these biscalars both in the Euclidean and Lorentzian sector. In particular we address the issue of retrieving the information contained in all the four wedges of the Rindler frame in the Lorentzian sector, starting from the Euclidean Rindler (polar) coordinates. This is possible but require four different types of analytic continuations, based on one unifying principle. Our procedure allows generalisation of these results to any (bifurcate Killing) horizon in curved spacetime.

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