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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.

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@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

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