On the Uniqueness of the Fock Quantization of the Dirac Field in the Closed FRW Cosmology

The Fock quantization of free fields propagating in cosmological backgrounds is in general not unambiguously defined due to the non-stationarity of the spacetime. For the case of a scalar field in cosmological scenarios it is known that the criterion of unitary implementation of the dynamics serves...

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Main Author: Cortez, Jerónimo (author)
Other Authors: Inácio, Ilda (author), Martín-Benito, Mercedes (author), Velhinho, José (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/7245
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:ubibliorum.ubi.pt:10400.6/7245
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Summary:The Fock quantization of free fields propagating in cosmological backgrounds is in general not unambiguously defined due to the non-stationarity of the spacetime. For the case of a scalar field in cosmological scenarios it is known that the criterion of unitary implementation of the dynamics serves to remove the ambiguity in the choice of Fock representation (up to unitary equivalence). Here, applying the same type of arguments and methods previously used for the scalar field case, we discuss the issue of the uniqueness of the Fock quantization of the Dirac field in the closed FRW spacetime proposed by D'Eath and Halliwell.