The stress - energy operator

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/11/002MaRDI QIDQ5689702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adam D. Helfer

Publication date 21 April 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9602060

zbMATH Keywords

curved spacetimestress-energy operatorscalar linear quantum field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: We compute the stress--energy operator for a scalar linear quantum field in curved space-time, modulo c-numbers. For the associated Hamiltonian operators, even those generating evolution along timelike vector fields, we find that in general on locally Fock-like (`Hadamard') representations: (a) The Hamiltonians cannot be self-adjoint operators; (b) The automorphisms of the field algebra generated by the evolution cannot be unitarily implemented; (c) The expectation values of the Hamiltonians are well-defined on a dense family of states; but (d) These expectation values are unbounded below, even for evolution along future-directed timelike vector fields and even on Hadamard states. These are all local, ultraviolet, effects.

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