Conformal mapping of Unruh temperature
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-07-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Thanks to a local interpetation of the KMS condition, the mapping from (unbounded) wedge regions of Minkowski space-time to (bounded) double-cone regions is extended to the Unruh temperature associated to relevant observers in both regions. A previous result, the diamond's temperature, is shown to be proportional to the inverse of the conformal factor (Weyl rescaling of the metric) of this map. One thus explains from a mathematical point of view why an observer with finite lifetime experiences the vacuum as a thermal state whatever his acceleration, even vanishing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0803.1538,
title = {Conformal mapping of Unruh temperature},
author = {Pierre Martinetti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.1538},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Paper shortened and reorganized. To be published in Modern Physics Letters A