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Phys. Rev. D 67, 124006 (2003) [12 pages]

Microcausality and quantum cylindrical gravitational waves

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J. Fernando Barbero G. *, Guillermo A. Mena Marugán †, and Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor ‡
Instituto de Matemáticas y Física Fundamental, Centro de Física Miguel A. Catalán, C.S.I.C., Serrano 113bis-121, 28006 Madrid, Spain

Received 25 February 2003; published 4 June 2003

We study several issues related to the different choices of time available for the classical and quantum treatment of linearly polarized cylindrical gravitational waves. We pay special attention to the time evolution of creation and annihilation operators and the definition of Fock spaces for the different choices of time involved. We also discuss the issue of microcausality and the use of field commutators to extract information about the causal properties of quantum spacetime.


©2003 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.67.124006
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.124006
PACS: 04.60.Ds, 04.60.Kz, 04.62.+v

* Email address: jfbarbero@imaff.cfmac.csic.es
† Email address: mena@imaff.cfmac.csic.es
‡ Email address: eduardo@imaff.cfmac.csic.es

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