Abstract
We consider the problem of quantizing scalar fields propagating in anti-de Sitter space-time. This space-time is static but not globally hyperbolic and hence the usual quantization procedures are inapplicable. Nevertheless, we show that a consistent quantization scheme can be devised by carefully controlling information entering and leaving the space-time through its timelike spatial infinity.
- Received 16 January 1978
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.18.3565
©1978 American Physical Society