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Título: | Uniqueness of the Fock quantization of scalar fields and processes with signature change in cosmology |
Autor: | Castelló Gomar, Laura CSIC ORCID; Mena Marugán, Guillermo A. CSIC ORCID | Fecha de publicación: | 2014 | Editor: | American Physical Society | Citación: | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 89: 084052 (2014) | Resumen: | We study scalar fields subject to an equation of the Klein-Gordon type in nonstationary spacetimes, such as those found in cosmology, assuming that all the relevant spatial dependence is contained in the Laplacian. We show that the field description - with a specific canonical pair - and the Fock representation for the quantization of the field are fixed indeed in a unique way (except for unitary transformations that do not affect the physical predictions) if we adopt the combined criterion of (a) imposing the invariance of the vacuum under the group of spatial symmetries of the field equations and (b) requiring a unitary implementation of the dynamics in the quantum theory. Besides, we provide a spacetime interpretation of the field equations as those corresponding to a scalar field in a cosmological spacetime that is conformally ultrastatic. In addition, in the privileged Fock quantization, we investigate the generalization of the evolution of physical states from the hyperbolic dynamical regime to an elliptic regime. In order to do this, we contemplate the possibility of processes with signature change in the spacetime where the field propagates and discuss the behavior of the background geometry when the change happens, proving that the spacetime metric degenerates. Finally, we argue that this kind of signature change leads naturally to a phenomenon of particle creation, with exponential production. © 2014 American Physical Society. | Descripción: | 12 pags. ; PACS numbers: 04.62.+v, 04.60.-m, 04.60.Pp, 98.80.Qc | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/110734 | DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.084052 | Identificadores: | doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.084052 issn: 1550-2368 |
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