Gravitational vacuum polarization. III. Energy conditions in the (1+1)-dimensional Schwarzschild spacetime

Matt Visser
Phys. Rev. D 54, 5123 – Published 15 October 1996
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Abstract

Building on techniques developed in the two preceding papers, I investigate the various pointwise and averaged energy conditions for the quantum stress-energy tensor corresponding to a conformally coupled massless scalar field in the (1+1)-dimensional Schwarzschild spacetime. Because the stress-energy tensors are analytically known, I can get exact results for the Hartle-Hawking, Boulware, and Unruh vacua. This exactly solvable model serves as a useful check on my (3+1)-dimensional investigations wherein I had to resort to a mixture of analytic approximations and numerical techniques. The key results in 1+1 dimensions are that (1) NEC is satisfied outside the event horizon for the Hartle-Hawking vacuum and violated for the Boulware and Unruh vacua, and (2) DEC is violated everywhere in the spacetime (for any quantum state, not just the standard vacuum states).

  • Received 1 April 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.54.5123

©1996 American Physical Society

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Matt Visser*

  • Physics Department, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899

  • *Electronic mail: visser@kiwi.wustl.edu

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Vol. 54, Iss. 8 — 15 October 1996

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