Tuesday, January 22, 2013

1301.4920 (Jeronimo Cortez et al.)

Massless scalar field in de Sitter spacetime: unitary quantum time
evolution
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Jeronimo Cortez, Daniel Martin-de Blas, Guillermo A. Mena Marugan, Jose M. Velhinho
We prove that, under the standard conformal scaling, a massless field in de Sitter spacetime admits an O(4)-invariant Fock quantization such that time evolution is unitarily implemented. This result disproves previous claims in the literature. We discuss the relationship between this quantization with unitary dynamics and the family of O(4)-invariant Hadamard states given by Allen and Folacci, as well as with the Bunch-Davies vacuum.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4920

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