Vacuum polarization on three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space-time with Robin boundary conditions

DOI10.1007/S10714-022-03056-6zbMATH Open1528.83152arXiv2209.01133OpenAlexW4313595405MaRDI QIDQ6132907FDOQ6132907

Elizabeth Winstanley, Sivakumar Namasivayam

Publication date: 15 July 2023

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a quantum scalar field, with general mass and coupling to the scalar curvature, propagating on three-dimensional global anti-de Sitter space-time. We determine the vacuum and thermal expectation values of the square of the field, also known as the vacuum polarisation (VP). We consider values of the scalar field mass and coupling for which there is a choice of boundary conditions giving well-posed classical dynamics. We apply Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin (mixed) boundary conditions to the field at the space-time boundary. We find finite values of the VP when the parameter governing the Robin boundary conditions is below a certain critical value. For all couplings, the vacuum expectation values of the VP with either Neumann or Dirichlet boundary conditions are constant and respect the maximal symmetry of the background space-time. However, this is not the case for Robin boundary conditions, when both the vacuum and thermal expectation values depend on the space-time location. At the space-time boundary, we find that both the vacuum and thermal expectation values of the VP with Robin boundary conditions converge to the result when Neumann boundary conditions are applied, except in the case of Dirichlet boundary conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01133

zbMATH Keywords

Robin boundary conditionsvacuum polarizationanti-de Sitter space-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Boundary values of solutions to elliptic equations and elliptic systems (35J67) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Diffusive and convective heat and mass transfer, heat flow (80A19) Differential geometric aspects in kinematics (53A17)

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