Stress Tensors for Instantaneous Vacua in 1+1 Dimensions

Details Stress Tensors for Instantaneous Vacua in 1+1 Dimensions Stress Tensors for Instantaneous Vacua in 1+1 Dimensions

1996-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9603005v2

Class.Quant.Grav. 14 (1997) 3041-3061

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

LaTeX, 28 pages, last term of Eq. (79) corrected

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10.1088/0264-9381/14/11/007

The regularized expectation value of the stress-energy tensor for a massless bosonic or fermionic field in 1+1 dimensions is calculated explicitly for the instantaneous vacuum relative to any Cauchy surface (here a spacelike curve) in terms of the length L of the curve (if closed), the local extrinsic curvature K of the curve, its derivative K' with respect to proper distance x along the curve, and the scalar curvature R of the spacetime: T_{00} = - epsilon pi/(6L^2) - K^2/(24 pi), T_{01} = - K'/(12 pi), T_{11} = - epsilon pi/(6L^2) - K^2/(24 pi) + R/(24 pi), in an orthonormal frame with the spatial vector parallel to the curve. Here epsilon = 1 for an untwisted (i.e., periodic in x) one-component massless bosonic field or for a twisted (i.e., antiperiodic in x) two-component massless fermionic field, epsilon = -1/2 for a twisted one-component massless bosonic field, and epsilon = - 2 for an untwisted two-component massless fermionic field. The calculation uses merely the energy-momentum conservation law and the trace anomaly (for which a very simple derivation is also given herein, as well as the expression for the Casimir energy of bosonic and fermionic fields twisted by an arbitrary amount in R^{D-1} x S^1). The two coordinate and conformal invariants of a quantum state that are (nonlocally) determined by the stress-energy tensor are given. Applications to topologically modified deSitter spacetimes, to a flat cylinder, and to Minkowski spacetime are discussed.

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