The time traveler's guide to the quantization of zero modes
arXiv:2108.07274 · doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2021)170
Abstract
We study the relationship between the quantization of a massless scalar field on the two-dimensional Einstein cylinder and in a spacetime with a time machine. We find that the latter picks out a unique prescription for the state of the zero mode in the Einstein cylinder. We show how this choice arises from the computation of the vacuum Wightman function and the vacuum renormalized stress-energy tensor in the time-machine geometry. Finally, we relate the previously proposed regularization of the zero mode state as a squeezed state with the time-machine warp parameter, thus demonstrating that the quantization in the latter regularizes the quantization in an Einstein cylinder.
arXiv comment17 pages, 2 Appendices, RevTex4-2; v2: accepted to JHEP, updated to match the upcoming published version. Added one figure for the conformal diagram
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