PAIR PRODUCTION BY AN ELECTRIC-FIELD IN (1+1)-DIMENSIONAL DESITTER SPACE

被引:78
作者
GARRIGA, J
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[1] Tufts Institute of Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1994年 / 49卷 / 12期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.49.6343
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We use the method of Bogolubov transformations to compute the rate of pair production by an electric field in (1+1)-dimensional de Sitter space. The results are in agreement with those obtained previously using the instanton methods. This is true even when the size of the instanton is comparable to the size of the de Sitter horizon.
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页码:6343 / 6346
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