Lorenz gauge quantization in conformally flat spacetimes

Published in Physical Review D, 2015

Recommended citation: Jesse C. Cresswell and Dan N. Vollick. Lorenz gauge quantization in conformally flat spacetimes. Phys. Rev. D 91, 084008, 2015

In this paper we use Dirac’s method to impose the Lorenz gauge condition in a general four-dimensional conformally flat spacetime and find that there is no particle production. We show that in cosmological spacetimes with dimension D≠4 there will be particle production when the scale factor changes, and we calculate the particle production due to a sudden change.

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