Quantum fields in anti-de Sitter wormholes

We study the effects of asymptotically anti-de Sitter wormholes in low-energy field theory and give a general prescription for obtaining the local effective interaction terms induced by them. The choice of vacuum for the matter fields selects a basis of the Hilbert space of anti-de Sitter wormholes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Barceló, Carlos, Garay, Luis Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1998
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/100674
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/100674
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:[PACS] Quantum field theory in curved spacetime
[PACS] Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology
Quantum cosmology
[PACS] Canonical quantization
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Sumario:We study the effects of asymptotically anti-de Sitter wormholes in low-energy field theory and give a general prescription for obtaining the local effective interaction terms induced by them. The choice of vacuum for the matter fields selects a basis of the Hilbert space of anti-de Sitter wormholes whose elements can be interpreted as states containing a given number of particles. This interpretation is subject to the same kind of ambiguity in the definition of a particle as that arising from quantum field theory in curved spacetime. © 1998 The American Physical Society