Elizabeth Winstanley

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In the canonical quantization of fields on curved space-time, the definition
of the vacuum state is of fundamental importance. We consider the definition
of vacuum states for scalar and fermion fields on rotating Minkowski and
anti-de Sitter space-times. The construction of the vacuum state for a
fermion field is much less constrained than for a scalar field. We explore
the consequences of this freedom for the definition of rotating thermal
states.

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University of Sheffield
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