The Schwinger Mechanism in (Anti) de Sitter Spacetimes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-05-04 v3
Abstract
We present a short and novel derivation of the Schwinger mechanism for particle pair production in dimensional de Sitter and Anti de Sitter spacetimes. We work directly in the flat embedding space and derive the pair production rates in these spacetimes via instanton methods. The derivation is manifestly coordinate independent, and also lends support to the possible deep connection between two conceptually disparate quantum phenomena - Schwinger effect and the Davies-Unruh effect.
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@article{arxiv.1601.01406,
title = {The Schwinger Mechanism in (Anti) de Sitter Spacetimes},
author = {Prasant Samantray},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.01406},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
9 pages. References added, typos corrected and expanded conclusion