A unique Fock quantization for fields in non-stationary spacetimes

Details A unique Fock quantization for fields in non-stationary spacetimes A unique Fock quantization for fields in non-stationary spacetimes

2010-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/1004.5320v3

JCAP 1010:030,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2010/10/030

In curved spacetimes, the lack of criteria for the construction of a unique quantization is a fundamental problem undermining the significance of the predictions of quantum field theory. Inequivalent quantizations lead to different physics. Recently, however, some uniqueness results have been obtained for fields in non-stationary settings. In particular, for vacua that are invariant under the background symmetries, a unitary implementation of the classical evolution suffices to pick up a unique Fock quantization in the case of Klein-Gordon fields with time-dependent mass, propagating in a static spacetime whose spatial sections are three-spheres. In fact, the field equation can be reinterpreted as describing the propagation in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime after a suitable scaling of the field by a function of time. For this class of fields, we prove here an even stronger result about the Fock quantization: the uniqueness persists when one allows for linear time-dependent transformations of the field in order to account for a scaling by background functions. In total, paying attention to the dynamics, there exists a preferred choice of quantum field, and only one $SO(4)$-invariant Fock representation for it that respects the standard probabilistic interpretation along the evolution. The result has relevant implications e.g. in cosmology.

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