Flat space as a gravitational instanton |
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| Authors: | SM Christensen MJ Duff |
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| Institution: | Lyman Laboratory of Physics and Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA;Physics Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154, USA |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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