Dimensional regularization of massless quantum electrodynamics in spherical spacetime

The quantization and renormalization of massless electrodynamics in a spacetime of constant curvature are discused. A formalism is presented which is valid in an arbitrary number of dimensions and therefore allows the use of dimensional regularization. In the discussion of the photon propagator it is found that anomalous mass terms dependent on the curvature arise, although these vanish in four dimensions. Further, the gauge-fixing term in the Lagrangian has the unconventional feature of not being a perfect square. The renormalizability of the theory is then demonstrated to one loop order, and the renormalization constants are shown to retain their flat spacetime values. Finally, expansions for the renormalized electron and photon propagators in terms of appropriate spherical harmonics are derived.     

New twistorial integral formulas for massless free fields of arbitrary spin

A manifestly scaling-invariant version of the Kirchoff-D'Adhemar-Penrose field integrals is presented. The invariant integral expressions for the spinning massless free fields are directly transcribed into the framework of twistor theory. It is then shown that the resulting twistorial field integrals can be thought of as being equivalent to the universal Penrose contour integral formulas for these fields.     

Explicit construction of conserved currents for massless fields of arbitrary spin

We give an explicit construction of conserved currents for massless fields of arbitrary spin. These currents are gauge invariant and conserved on shell. Also they allow for the construction of a large class of trilinear interaction terms for the interaction between a massless spin-s₁ field and two spin-s₂ fields. The class is restricted only to 2s₂⩽s₁. In case s₁ = 4 and s₂ = 2, the current is the linearized Bel-Robinson tensor. To these conserved currents corresponds an infinite dimensional Lie algebra of global infinitesimal invariances of the action of a free massless field of arbitrary spin.     

Homogeneous propagators for massless half-integer spin fields in 3+2 De Sitter space

Investigation of the massive propagators allows us to exhibit indecomposable representations appearing with masslessness. By direct examination of the propagators, we prove that massless fields in 3+2 De Sitter space propagate on the light cone. Indeed, it will be shown that a choice of gauge, in which all propagation is confined to the light cone, exists and, in this context, explicit expressions of homogeneous propagators for massless half-integer spin fields are obtained.     

Stress-energy tensor for a massless spin 1/2 field in static black hole spacetimes

The stress-energy tensor for the massless spin 1/2 field is numerically computed outside and on the event horizons of both charged and uncharged static nonrotating black holes, corresponding to the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstr?m, and extreme Reissner-Nordstr?m solutions of Einstein's equations. The field is assumed to be in a thermal state at the black hole temperature. Comparison is made between the numerical results and previous analytic approximations for the stress-energy tensor in these spacetimes. For the Schwarzschild (charge zero) solution, it is shown that the stress energy differs even in sign from the analytic approximation. For the Reissner-Nordstr?m and extreme Reissner-Nordstr?m solutions, divergences predicted by the analytic approximations are shown not to exist.     

Free massless fermionic fields of arbitrary spin in d-dimensional anti-de sitter space

Free massless fermionic fields of arbitrary spins, corresponding to fully symmetric tensor-spinor irreducible representations of the flat little group SO(d−2), are described in d-dimensional anti-de Sitter space in terms of differential forms. Appropriate linearized higher-spin curvature 2-forms are found. Explicitly gauge invariant higher-spin actions are constructed in terms of these linearized curvatures.     

Light-cone quantization for massless fields

When the light-cone quantization procedure is applied to massless fields care must be taken or the resulting theory will not be isomorphic to the equivalent theory quantized at equal times. The special considerations necessary for massless fields are described here and their application to recently presented calculations in 1+1 dimensions are discussed.     

Equilibrium points of spin particles in static gravitational fields

General conditions are formulated within the framework of general relativity for suspension of rotating particles in static gravitational fields having the form of systems of differential equations for the components of the spin tensor. In the special case of suspension of particles in gravitational fields created by nonrotating objects, the spin components are a superposition of quantities which vary harmonically over time. As an example the effect of suspension of a spin particle within a gravitating liquid sphere is considered.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 24–28, May, 1990.     

Taub-NUT时空视界附近自旋场的热力学量

利用Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin近似计算了Taub-NUT时空事件视界附近自旋为1/2，1，3/2，2等无质量场的熵密度、压强和能量密度.结果表明，自旋场附近的热力学量不仅具有与平直时空相同的主导项，还多了两项自旋依赖的附加项. 关键词： Taub-NUT时空 自旋场 热力学量     

Boundary terms for massless fermionic fields

Local supersymmetry leads to boundary conditions for fermionic fields in one-loop quantum cosmology involving the Euclidean normal _e n _A/A to the boundary and a pair of independent spinor fields ^A and . This paper studies the corresponding classical properties, i.e., the classical boundary-value problem and boundary terms in the variational problem. If is set to zero on a 3-sphere bounding flat Euclidean 4-space, the modes of the massless spin–1/2 field multiplying harmonics having positive eigenvalues for the intrinsic 3-dimensional Dirac operator onS ³ should vanish onS ³. Remarkably, this coincides with the property of the classical boundary-value problem when spectral boundary conditions are imposed onS ³ in the massless case. Moreover, the boundary term in the action functional is proportional to the integral on the boundary of ^A _e n _AA ^A .     

Five-dimensional cosmological models with massless scalar fields

Simple cosmologies are constructed from solutions of the five-dimensional Einstein equations with a real massless non-self-interacting scalar field source. It is demonstrated that non-trivial cosmological models occur only if the metric of the homogeneous and isotropic three-space of the universe has non-positive constant curvature. For the case of flat three-space, it is further demonstrated that two classes of solutions result - one of which has a power-law type of expansion for three-space and contraction of the one-dimensional internal space, while the other class has an exponential expansion for three-space and exponential contraction of the internal space. The exponentially expanding solutions are the limiting case of the power-law expanding solutions. Hence, our model is consistent with a simple inflationary scenario.     

Planary symmetric static worlds with massless scalar sources

Motivated by the recent wave of investigations on plane domain wall spacetimes with nontrivial topologies, the present paper deals with (probably) the most simple source field configuration which can generate a spatially planary symmetric static spacetime, namely a minimally coupled massless scalar field that depends only upon a spacelike coordinate. z. It is shown that the corresponding exact solutions (. g_±) are algebraically special, type D-[S-3T] (in11), and represent globally pathologic spacetimes with a G₄-group of motion acting on R² × R orbits. In spite of the model simplicity, these -generated worlds possess naked timelike singularities (reached within a finite universal time by normal nonspacelike geodesics). are completely free of Cauchy surfaces, and contain, in the t-leveled sections, points that cannot be joined by C¹-trajectory images of oblique non-spacelike geodesies. Finally, we comment on the possibility of deriving from (, g_±) two other physically interesting -generated spacetimes by appropriate joining conditions in the (z=0)-plane.Monbusho fellow, on leave of absence from Al. I. Cuza University of lasi. Romania).     

Resonant frequencies of massless scalar field in rotating black-brane spacetime

This paper investigates the resonant frequencies of the massless scalar field in the near extremal Kerr-like black-brane spacetime. It is shown that the different angular quantum number will present different resonant frequencies. It is also shown that the real part of the resonant frequencies increases as the compact dimensions parameter μi increases, but the magnitude of the imaginary part decreases as μi increases.     

Chiral anomaly in a spherical spacetime

We evaluate the chiral anomaly for a gauge theory on Sⁿ in the hyperspherical O(n + 1) covariant formalism using the method of Fujikawa and comment on related aspects.     

A generalized consistency condition for massless fields

Using a generalized consistency condition (gcc), we construct couplings between massless scalar fields and the spin 2 gravitational field. Specifically, we consider all possible third-order interaction terms for scalar fields and a and use the gcc to single out one. We also find three generalized current identities associated with the massless gauge fields.