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Non-unitarity or hidden observables?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-01-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A free hermitian conformal field theory is considered in Minkowski, de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spacetimes. The first part of the paper studies spacetime inversion and conformal inversion, wherein their role in the field quantization is elucidated in those spaces. The second part of the paper is concerned with the non-unitary evolution of detector's state. Several examples of such processes are provided with a clarification of how the unitarity is preserved with still having well-known thermal effects.

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@article{arxiv.1410.6149,
  title  = {Non-unitarity or hidden observables?},
  author = {Slava Emelyanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6149},
  year   = {2015}
}

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typos fixed, references added, minor corrections

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