FLAT SPACE AS A GRAVITATIONAL INSTANTON

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作者
CHRISTENSEN, SM [1 ]
DUFF, MJ [1 ]
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[1] BRANDEIS UNIV,DEPT PHYS,WALTHAM,MA 02154
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0550-3213(78)90428-5
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
Gravitational instantons may influence elementary particle phenomena, even when space-time is flat. To illustrate this point, we employ instanton techniques to rederive a result first obtained by totally different methods; an observer accelerating uniformly in flat Minkowski space experiences a heat bath whose temperature is proportional to his acceleration. © 1978.
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