As a starting point, we state some relevant geometrical properties enjoyed by the cosmological horizon of a certain class of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker backgrounds. Those properties are generalised to a larger class of expanding spacetimes M admitting a geodesically complete cosmological horizon − common to all co-moving observers. This structure is later exploited in order to recast, in a cosmological background, some recent results for a linear scalar quantum field theory in spacetimes asymptotically flat at null infinity. Under suitable hypotheses on M, encompassing both the cosmological de Sitter background and a large class of other FRWspacetimes, the algebra of observables for a Klein-Gordon field is mapped into a subalgebra of the algebra of observables W(−) constructed on the cosmological horizon. There is exactly one pure quasifree state λ on W(−) which fulfills a suitable energy-positivity condition with respect to a generator related with the cosmological time displacements. Furthermore λ induces a preferred physically meaningful quantum state λM for the quantum theory in the bulk. If M admits a timelike Killing generator preserving −, then the associated self-adjoint generator in the GNS representation of λM has positive spectrum (i.e., energy). Moreover λM turns out to be invariant under every symmetry of the bulk metric which preserves the cosmological horizon. In the case of an expanding de Sitter spacetime, λM coincides with the Euclidean (Bunch-Davies) vacuum state, hence being Hadamard in this case. Remarks on the validity of the Hadamard property for λM in more general spacetimes are presented.

Cosmological horizons and reconstruction of quantum field theories / Dappiaggi, Claudio; Moretti, Valter; Pinamonti, Nicola. - In: COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 0010-3616. - STAMPA. - 285:3(2009), pp. 1129-1163. [10.1007/s00220-008-0653-8]

Cosmological horizons and reconstruction of quantum field theories

Moretti, Valter;
2009-01-01

Abstract

As a starting point, we state some relevant geometrical properties enjoyed by the cosmological horizon of a certain class of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker backgrounds. Those properties are generalised to a larger class of expanding spacetimes M admitting a geodesically complete cosmological horizon − common to all co-moving observers. This structure is later exploited in order to recast, in a cosmological background, some recent results for a linear scalar quantum field theory in spacetimes asymptotically flat at null infinity. Under suitable hypotheses on M, encompassing both the cosmological de Sitter background and a large class of other FRWspacetimes, the algebra of observables for a Klein-Gordon field is mapped into a subalgebra of the algebra of observables W(−) constructed on the cosmological horizon. There is exactly one pure quasifree state λ on W(−) which fulfills a suitable energy-positivity condition with respect to a generator related with the cosmological time displacements. Furthermore λ induces a preferred physically meaningful quantum state λM for the quantum theory in the bulk. If M admits a timelike Killing generator preserving −, then the associated self-adjoint generator in the GNS representation of λM has positive spectrum (i.e., energy). Moreover λM turns out to be invariant under every symmetry of the bulk metric which preserves the cosmological horizon. In the case of an expanding de Sitter spacetime, λM coincides with the Euclidean (Bunch-Davies) vacuum state, hence being Hadamard in this case. Remarks on the validity of the Hadamard property for λM in more general spacetimes are presented.
2009
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Dappiaggi, Claudio; Moretti, Valter; Pinamonti, Nicola
Cosmological horizons and reconstruction of quantum field theories / Dappiaggi, Claudio; Moretti, Valter; Pinamonti, Nicola. - In: COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 0010-3616. - STAMPA. - 285:3(2009), pp. 1129-1163. [10.1007/s00220-008-0653-8]
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