Hyperbolic Vacua in Minkowski Space

Abstract

Families of Lorentz, but not Poincare, invariant vacua are constructed for a massless scalar field in 4D Minkowski space. These are generalizations of the Rindler vacuum with a larger symmetry group. Explicit expressions are given as squeezed excitations of the Poincare vacuum. The effective reduced vacua on the 3D hyperbolic de Sitter slices are the well-known de Sitter $\alpha$-vacua with antipodal singularities in the Wightman function. Several special interesting cases are discussed.

11 pages