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Stress-Energy Must be Singular on the Misner Space Horizon even for Automorphic Fields

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-04-06 v1

Abstract

We use the image sum method to reproduce Sushkov's result that for a massless automorphic field on the initial globally hyperbolic region IGHIGH of Misner space, one can always find a special value of the automorphic parameter α\alpha such that the renormalized expectation value αTabα\langle\alpha|T_{ab}|\alpha\rangle in the {\it Sushkov state} ``αα\langle\alpha|\cdot|\alpha\rangle'' (i.e. the automorphic generalization of the Hiscock-Konkowski state) vanishes. However, we shall prove by elementary methods that the conclusions of a recent general theorem of Kay-Radzikowski-Wald apply in this case. I.e. for any value of α\alpha and any neighbourhood NN of any point bb on the chronology horizon there exists at least one pair of non-null related points (x,x)(NIGH)×(NIGH)(x,x') \in (N\cap IGH)\times (N\cap IGH) such that the renormalized two-point function of an automorphic field Grenα(x,x)G^\alpha_{\rm ren}(x,x') in the Sushkov state is singular. In consequence αTabα\langle\alpha|T_{ab}|\alpha\rangle (as well as other renormalized expectation values such as αϕ2α\langle\alpha|\phi^2|\alpha\rangle) is necessarily singular {\it on} the chronology horizon. We point out that a similar situation (i.e. singularity {\it on} the chronology horizon) holds for states on Gott space and Grant space.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9606027,
  title  = {Stress-Energy Must be Singular on the Misner Space Horizon even for Automorphic Fields},
  author = {Claes R Cramer and Bernard S. Kay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9606027},
  year   = {2010}
}

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10 pages, LaTeX, 2 postscript figures