The global rotating scalar field vacuum on anti-de Sitter space-time
Abstract
We consider the definition of the global vacuum state of a quantum scalar field on -dimensional anti-de Sitter space-time as seen by an observer rotating about the polar axis. Since positive (or negative) frequency scalar field modes must have positive (or negative) Klein-Gordon norm respectively, we find that the only sensible choice of positive frequency corresponds to positive frequency as seen by a static observer. This means that the global rotating vacuum is identical to the global nonrotating vacuum. For , if the angular velocity of the rotating observer is smaller than the inverse of the anti-de Sitter radius of curvature, then modes with positive Klein-Gordon norm also have positive frequency as seen by the rotating observer.We comment on the implications of this result for the construction of global rotating thermal states.
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@article{arxiv.1410.3215,
title = {The global rotating scalar field vacuum on anti-de Sitter space-time},
author = {Carl Kent and Elizabeth Winstanley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.3215},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Minor changes (inc. title change), version accepted for publication in Physics Letters B, 4 pages