Particle Production Between Isometric Frames on a Poincaré Patch of
arXiv:1908.11742 · doi:10.1063/1.5117832
Abstract
In a recent paper [J. P. M. Pitelli, Phys. Rev. D {\bf 99}, 108701 (2019)], one of us showed that the vacuum state associated to conformal fields on a Poicaré patch of anti-de Sitter spacetime is not invariant for fields satisfying non-trivial boundary conditions (by non-trivial we mean neither Dirichlet nor Neumann) at the conformal boundary. In this way, two isometrically related observers in anti-de Sitter space have different notions of no particle content. Therefore, an observer who is suddenly transported to a different (but isometrically related) frame will feel a bath of particles. This process contradicts our intuitive notion based on our experience in Minkowski spacetime, where the vacuum is Lorentz invariant, and no particle is produced between boosted frames. We show that the total number of produced particles is finite, but grows without limit when we approach (via isometric transformation) Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions since in these cases the vacuum is invariant.
4 pages. Accepted for publication in J. Math. Phys
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