• DOI:10.1088/0264-9381/24/7/F01
Corpus ID: 1870101

Local temperature in curved spacetime

@article{Buchholz2007LocalTI,
  title={Local temperature in curved spacetime},
  author={D. Buchholz and J. Schlemmer},
  journal={Classical and Quantum Gravity},
  year={2007},
  volume={24}
}

D. Buchholz, J. Schlemmer

Published 2007

Physics

Classical and Quantum Gravity

A physically meaningful local concept of temperature is introduced in quantum field theory on curved spacetime and applied to the example of a massless field on de Sitter space. It turns out in this model that the equilibrium (Gibbs) states which can be prepared by a geodesic observer have in general a varying temperature distribution in the neighbourhood of the geodesic and may not even allow for a consistent thermal interpretation close to the horizon. This result, which can be traced back to… CONTINUE READING

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