TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVITY

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1995-05-24

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9505045v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

9 pages, 1 figure available upon request

Scientific paper

10.1016/0375-9601(95)00843-7

We investigate whether inertial thermometers moving in a thermal bath behave as being hotter or colder. This question is directly related to the classical controversy concerning how temperature transforms under Lorentz transformations. Rather than basing our arguments on thermodynamical hypotheses, we perform straightforward calculations in the context of relativistic quantum field theory. For this purpose we use Unruh-DeWitt detectors, since they have been shown to be reliable thermometers in semi-classical gravity. We believe that our discussion helps in definitely clarifying this issue.

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