The trousers problem revisited

Citeable URL: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/j9602133w

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Attribute Name	Values
Creator	Manogue, Corinne A. Copeland, Ed Dray, Tevian
Abstract	Anderson and DeWitt considered the quantization of a massless scalar field in a spacetime whose spacelike hypersurfaces change topology and concluded that the topology change gives rise to infinite particle and energy production. We show here that their calculations are insufficient and that their propagation rule is unphysical. However, our results using a more general propagation rule support their conclusion. Keywords: Massless scalar field, Trousers topology, Propagation rules, Energy density
Resource Type	Article
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02846737
Date Available	2014-11-05T22:50:11+00:00
Date Issued	1988-04
Citation	Manogue, C. A., Copeland, E., & Dray, T. (1988). The trousers problem revisited. Pramana, 30(4), 279-292. doi:10.1007/BF02846737
Journal Title	Pramana
Journal Volume	30
Journal Issue/Number	4
Academic Affiliation	Mathematics
Declaração de direitos	In Copyright
Funding Statement (additional comments about funding)	TD and CAM gratefully acknowledge SERC postdoctoral fellowships in the UK as well as Indo-US fellowships funded jointly by the NSF and the USIA in the US and UGC in India. EC gratefully acknowledges an SERC postdoctoral fellowship.
Publisher	Indian Academy of Sciences
Peer Reviewed	Yes
Language	English [eng]
Replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/53702