The Sorkin-Johnston state in a patch of the trousers spacetime

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA589CMaRDI QIDQ5348142zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michel Buck, Fay Dowker, I. Jubb, Rafael D. Sorkin

Publication date 14 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03573

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityquantum field theoryscalar field theorytopology changetrousers spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65)

Abstract: A quantum scalar field in a patch of a fixed, topology-changing, $1+1$ dimensional "trousers" spacetime is studied using the Sorkin-Johnston formalism. The isometry group of the patch is the dihedral group, the symmetry group of the square. The theory is shown to be pathological in a way that can be interpreted as the topology change giving rise to a divergent energy, in agreement with previous results. In contrast to previous results, it is shown that the infinite energy is localised not only on the future light cone of the topology changing singularity, but also on the past cone, due to the time reversal symmetry of the Sorkin-Johnston state.

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