Cosmological horizons and reconstruction of quantum field theories

DOI10.1007/S00220-008-0653-8zbMATH Open1171.81019OpenAlexW2035981135MaRDI QIDQ731283FDOQ731283

Authors: Claudio Dappiaggi, Valter Moretti, Nicola Pinamonti 

Publication date: 2 October 2009

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: As a starting point, we state some relevant geometrical properties enjoyed by the cosmological horizon of a certain class of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker backgrounds. Those properties are generalised to a larger class of expanding spacetimes $M$ admitting a geodesically complete cosmological horizon $scrim$ common to all co-moving observers. This structure is later exploited in order to recast, in a cosmological background, some recent results for a linear scalar quantum field theory in spacetimes asymptotically flat at null infinity. Under suitable hypotheses on $M$, encompassing both the cosmological de Sitter background and a large class of other FRW spacetimes, the algebra of observables for a Klein-Gordon field is mapped into a subalgebra of the algebra of observables $cW(scrim)$ constructed on the cosmological horizon. There is exactly one pure quasifree state $lambda$ on $cW(scrim)$ which fulfils a suitable energy-positivity condition with respect to a generator related with the cosmological time displacements. Furthermore $lambda$ induces a preferred physically meaningful quantum state $lambd{a}_M$ for the quantum theory in the bulk. If $M$ admits a timelike Killing generator preserving $scrim$, then the associated self-adjoint generator in the GNS representation of $lambd{a}_M$ has positive spectrum (i.e. energy). Moreover $lambd{a}_M$ turns out to be invariant under every symmetry of the bulk metric which preserves the cosmological horizon. In the case of an expanding de Sitter spacetime, $lambd{a}_M$ coincides with the Euclidean (Bunch-Davies) vacuum state, hence being Hadamard in this case. Remarks on the validity of the Hadamard property for $lambd{a}_M$ in more general spacetimes are presented.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1770

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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