On a puzzle about bremsstrahlung as described by coaccelerated observers

I. Peña, C. Chryssomalakos, A. Corichi, and D. Sudarsky
Phys. Rev. D 72, 084018 – Published 20 October 2005

Abstract

We consider anew some puzzling aspects of the equivalence of the quantum field theoretical description of bremsstrahlung from the inertial and accelerated observer’s perspectives. More concretely, we focus on the seemingly paradoxical situation that arises when noting that the radiating source is in thermal equilibrium with the thermal state of the quantum field in the wedge in which it is located, and thus its presence does not change there the state of the field, while it clearly does not affect the state of the field on the opposite wedge. How then is the state of the quantum field on the future wedge changed, as it must in order to account for the changed energy-momentum tensor there? This and related issues are carefully discussed.

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  • Received 15 July 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.084018

©2005 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

I. Peña1,*, C. Chryssomalakos1,†, A. Corichi1,2,‡, and D. Sudarsky1,§

  • 1Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Ciudad Universitaria, Apartado postal 70-543, 04510, Distrito Federal, México
  • 2Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado postal 61-3, Morelia, Michoacán 58090, México

  • *Electronic address: igor@nucleares.unam.mx
  • Electronic address: chryss@nucleares.unam.mx
  • Electronic address: corichi@nucleares.unam.mx
  • §Electronic address: sudarsky@nucleares.unam.mx

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Vol. 72, Iss. 8 — 15 October 2005

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