Statistics from dynamics in curved spacetime

Leonard Parker and Yi Wang
Phys. Rev. D 39, 3596 – Published 15 June 1989
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Abstract

We consider quantum fields of spin 0, (1/2, 1, (3/2, and 2 with a nonzero mass in curved spacetime. We show that the dynamical Bogolubov transformations associated with gravitationally induced particle creation imply the connection between spin and statistics: By embedding two flat regions in a curved spacetime, we find that only when one imposes Bose-Einstein statistics for an integer-spin field and Fermi-Dirac statistics for a half-integer-spin field in the first flat region is the same type of statistics propagated from the first to the second flat region. This derivation of the flat-spacetime spin-statistics theorem makes use of curved-spacetime dynamics and does not reduce to any proof given in flat spacetime. We also show in the same manner that parastatistics, up to the fourth order, are consistent with the dynamical evolution of curved spacetime.

  • Received 7 February 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.39.3596

©1989 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Leonard Parker and Yi Wang

  • Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201

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Vol. 39, Iss. 12 — 15 June 1989

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