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arxiv: gr-qc/0009061 · v2 · submitted 2000-09-17 · 🌀 gr-qc

Quantized Fields and Chronology Protection

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keywords chronologyvacuumfieldshorizonsmisnerprotectionscalarspace
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Several recent possible counterexamples to the Chronology Protection Conjecture are critically examined. The ``adapted'' Rindler vacuum state constructed by Li and Gott for a conformal scalar field in Misner space is extended to nonconformally coupled and self-interacting scalar fields. For these fields, the vacuum stress-energy always diverges on the chronology horizons. The divergence of the vacuum stress-energy on Misner space chronology horizons cannot be generally avoided by choosing a Rindler-type vacuum state.

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