Quantization of scalar fields coupled to point masses

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/24/245009MaRDI QIDQ2788976zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benito A. Juárez-Aubry, Juan Margalef-Bentabol, J. Fernando Barbero G., Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

Publication date 23 February 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05114, http://hdl.handle.net/10016/24587

zbMATH Keywords

Fock quantizationgeometric Hamiltonian formulationQFT in curved space-times

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) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: We study the Fock quantization of a compound classical system consisting of point masses and a scalar field. We consider the Hamiltonian formulation of the model by using the geometric constraint algorithm of Gotay, Nester and Hinds. By relying on this Hamiltonian description, we characterize in a precise way the real Hilbert space of classical solutions to the equations of motion and use it to rigorously construct the Fock space of the system. We finally discuss the structure of this space, in particular the impossibility of writing it in a natural way as a tensor product of Hilbert spaces associated with the point masses and the field, respectively.

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