Quantum Singularity as Indicated by Klein-Gordon, Maxwell, and Dirac Fields in Quasiregular Spacetimes

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Apr 2002

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Klein-Gordon, Maxwell and Dirac fields are studied in quasiregular spacetimes, spacetimes with a classical quasiregular singularity, the mildest true classical singularity [G.F.R. Ellis and B.G. Schmidt, Gen. Rel. Grav.8, 915 (1977)]. A class of static quasiregular spacetimes possessing disclinations and dislocations [R.A. Puntigam and H.H. Soleng, Class. Quantum Grav. 14, 1129 (1997)] is shown to have field operators which are not essentially self-adjoint. This class of spacetimes includes an idealized cosmic string, i.e., a four-dimensional spacetime with a conical singularity [L.H. Ford and A. Vilenkin, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 14, 2353 (1981)], and a Galtsov/Letelier/Tod spacetime featuring a screw dislocation [K.P. Tod, Class. Quantum Grav. 11, 1331 (1994); D.V. Galtsov and P.S. Letelier, Phys. Rev. D47, 4273 (1993)]. The definition of G. T. Horowitz and D. Marolf [Phys. Rev. D52, 5670 (1995)] for a quantum-mechanically singular spacetime as one in which the spatial-derivative operator in the Klein-Gordon equation for a massive scalar field is not essentially self-adjoint is extended in the case of quasiregular spacetimes to include Maxwell and Dirac fields. Therefore, the class of static quasiregular spacetimes under consideration is quantum-mechanically singular independent of the type of test field.

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