Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1996-02-14
J.Math.Phys. 37 (1996) 2694-2730
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
49 pages, plain tex with vanilla.sty
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.531537
A class of free quantum fields defined on the Poincare' group, is described by means of their two-point vacuum expectation values. They are not equivalent to fields defined on the Minkowski spacetime and they are "elementary" in the sense that they describe particles that transform according to irreducible unitary representations of the symmetry group, given by the product of the Poincare' group and of the group SL(2, C) considered as an internal symmetry group. Some of these fields describe particles with positive mass and arbitrary spin and particles with zero mass and arbitrary helicity or with an infinite helicity spectrum. In each case the allowed SL(2, C) internal quantum numbers are specified. The properties of local commutativity and the limit in which one recovers the usual field theories in Minkowski spacetime are discussed. By means of a superposition of elementary fields, one obtains an example of a field that present a broken symmetry with respect to the group Sp(4, R), that survives in the short-distance limit. Finally, the interaction with an accelerated external source is studied and and it is shown that, in some theories, the average number of particles emitted per unit of proper time diverges when the acceleration exceeds a finite critical value.
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