Conformal Mapping of Unruh Temperature
Abstract
In the framework of conformal field theory, the mapping from (unbounded) wedge regions of Minkowski spacetime to (bounded) double-cone regions is extended to the Unruh temperature associated to a uniformly accelerated observer. The link between a previous result, the diamond's temperature, and the conformal factor (Weyl rescaling of the metric) is worked out. One thus explains from a mathematical point of view why an observer with finite lifetime experiences the vacuum as a thermal state whatever his acceleration, even vanishing.
- Publication:
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Modern Physics Letters A
- Pub Date:
- 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S0217732309030874
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0803.1538
- Bibcode:
- 2009MPLA...24.1473M
- Keywords:
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- 11.10.-z;
- 11.10.Cd;
- Field theory;
- Axiomatic approach;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- Paper shortened and reorganized. To be published in Modern Physics Letters A