Hyperbolic vacua in Minkowski space

Abstract Families of Lorentz, but not Poincare, invariant vacua are constructed for a massless scalar field in 4D Minkowski space. These are generalizations of the Rindler vacuum with a larger symmetry group. Explicit expressions are given as squeezed excitations of the Poincare vacuum. The effectiv...

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Main Authors: Walker Melton, Filip Niewinski, Andrew Strominger, Tianli Wang
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Published: SpringerOpen 2024-08-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2024)046
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description Abstract Families of Lorentz, but not Poincare, invariant vacua are constructed for a massless scalar field in 4D Minkowski space. These are generalizations of the Rindler vacuum with a larger symmetry group. Explicit expressions are given as squeezed excitations of the Poincare vacuum. The effective reduced vacua on the 3D hyperbolic de Sitter slices are the well-known de Sitter α-vacua with antipodal singularities in the Wightman function. Several special interesting cases are discussed.
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spelling doaj-art-e8c9d656da30479cbbd9a118d5e216442025-08-20T02:32:56ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792024-08-012024811110.1007/JHEP08(2024)046Hyperbolic vacua in Minkowski spaceWalker Melton0Filip Niewinski1Andrew Strominger2Tianli Wang3Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard UniversityCenter for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard UniversityCenter for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard UniversityCenter for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard UniversityAbstract Families of Lorentz, but not Poincare, invariant vacua are constructed for a massless scalar field in 4D Minkowski space. These are generalizations of the Rindler vacuum with a larger symmetry group. Explicit expressions are given as squeezed excitations of the Poincare vacuum. The effective reduced vacua on the 3D hyperbolic de Sitter slices are the well-known de Sitter α-vacua with antipodal singularities in the Wightman function. Several special interesting cases are discussed.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2024)046Space-Time SymmetriesScale and Conformal Symmetries
spellingShingle Walker Melton
Filip Niewinski
Andrew Strominger
Tianli Wang
Hyperbolic vacua in Minkowski space
Journal of High Energy Physics
Space-Time Symmetries
Scale and Conformal Symmetries
title Hyperbolic vacua in Minkowski space
title_full Hyperbolic vacua in Minkowski space
title_fullStr Hyperbolic vacua in Minkowski space
title_full_unstemmed Hyperbolic vacua in Minkowski space
title_short Hyperbolic vacua in Minkowski space
title_sort hyperbolic vacua in minkowski space
topic Space-Time Symmetries
Scale and Conformal Symmetries
url https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2024)046
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