Equation 5 · Part 4 · No Particle Without a Cosigner
Symbol pi
What this part means
pi is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
Its job in the formula
pi is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
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The passage around this formula
When any of the coefficients is nonzero, the vacuum of the a -decomposition is a many-particle state of the -decomposition, and vice versa: “how many particles are present” is a question whose answer depends on which set of modes was declared fundamental, not on the field configuration by itself. Fulling showed this could happen already in flat, static coordinates on two-dimensional Minkowski space, purely from a nonstandard but perfectly legitimate choice of time coordinate [ 2 ] . Davies showed the same mixing follows Hawking’s black-hole derivation into the Rindler wedge of ordinary flat spacetime, associating a temperature with the horizon an accelerated observer…
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [2] Nonuniqueness of Canonical Field Quantization in Riemannian Space-Time ↗
- [3] Scalar Production in Schwarzschild and Rindler Metrics ↗
- [1] Notes on Black-Hole Evaporation ↗
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