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Quantum effects in rotating thermal states on anti-de Sitter space-time

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-08-08 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the stress-energy tensor of a massless, conformally coupled, quantum scalar field in a rigidly-rotating thermal state on three- and four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space-time. We first find the stress-energy tensor using relativistic kinetic theory, modelling the field as a thermal gas of massless bosons. We then compute the renormalized stress-energy tensor of the scalar field in quantum field theory and compare it with that resulting from relativistic kinetic theory.

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@article{arxiv.2505.05448,
  title  = {Quantum effects in rotating thermal states on anti-de Sitter space-time},
  author = {Jacob C. Thompson and Elizabeth Winstanley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05448},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, 6 figures, minor changes, accepted for publication in Physics Letters B