Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1999-03-07
J.Math.Phys.41:617-637,2000
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
27 pages, LATEX; minor changes and corrections; version to appear in JMP
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.533155
For a quantum field living on a non - static spacetime no instantaneous Hamiltonian is definable, for this generically necessitates a choice of inequivalent representation of the canonical commutation relations at each instant of time. This fact suggests a description in terms of time - dependent Hilbert spaces, a concept that fits naturally in a (consistent) histories framework. Our primary tool for the construction of the quantum theory in a continuous -time histories format is the recently developed formalism based on the notion of the history group . This we employ to study a model system involving a 1+1 scalar field in a cavity with moving boundaries. The instantaneous (smeared) Hamiltonian and a decoherence functional are then rigorously defined so that finite values for the time - averaged particle creation rate are obtainable through the study of energy histories. We also construct the Schwinger - Keldysh closed- time - path generating functional as a ``Fourier transform'' of the decoherence functional and evaluate the corresponding n - point functions.
Anastopoulos Charis
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