Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1999-12-20
Nuovo Cim. B115 (2000) 1005-1024
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
20 pages, 1 figure, to be published in the Proceedings of The 3rd Icra Network Workshop and 6th Italo-Korean Meeting on Relati
Scientific paper
We analyse the quantization procedure of the spinor field in the Rindler spacetime, showing the boundary conditions that should be imposed to the field, in order to have a well posed theory. We then investigate the relationship between this construction and the usual one in Minkowski spacetime. This leads to the concept of "Unruh effect", that is the thermal nature of the Minkowski vacuum state from the point of view of an accelerated observer. It is demostrated that the two constructions are qualitatively different and can not be compared and consequently the conventional interpretation of the Unruh effect is questionable.
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