THE GENERAL-COVARIANT AND GAUGE-INVARIANT THEORY OF QUANTUM PARTICLES IN CLASSICAL BACKGROUNDS

DOI10.1142/S0218271803002779zbMATH Open1079.81556arXivhep-th/0202204OpenAlexW3103071557MaRDI QIDQ5699962FDOQ5699962

Authors: Hrvoje Nikolić 

Publication date: 27 October 2005

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

Abstract: A new approach to the concept of particles and their production in quantum field theory is developed. A local operator describing the current of particle density is constructed for scalar and spinor fields in arbitrary gravitational and electromagnetic backgrounds. This enables one to describe particles in a local, general-covariant and gauge-invariant way. However, the current depends on the choice of a 2-point function. There is a choice that leads to the local non-conservation of the current in a gravitational or an electromagnetic background, which describes local particle production consistent with the usual global description based on the Bogoliubov transformation. The most natural choice based on the Green function calculated using the Schwinger-DeWitt method leads to the local conservation of the current, provided that interactions with quantum fields are absent. Interactions with quantum fields lead to the local non-conservation of the current which describes local particle production consistent with the usual global description based on the interaction picture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202204

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zbMATH Keywords

curved backgroundgauge-invarianceelectromagnetic backgroundCurrent of particle densitygeneral-covarianceparticle productionc

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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