01 v 1 1 A pr 1 99 7 Restrictions on negative energy density in a curved spacetime

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  • Dae - Yup Song
چکیده

Recently a restriction (" quantum inequality-type relation ") on the (renormal-ized) energy density measured by a static observer in a " globally static " (ultrastatic) spacetime has been formulated by Pfenning and Ford for the minimally coupled scalar field, in the extension of quantum inequality-type relation on flat spacetime of Ford and Roman. They found negative lower bounds for the line integrals of energy density multiplied by a sampling (weighting) function, and explicitly evaluate them for some specific spacetimes. In this paper, we study the lower bound on spacetimes whose spacelike hypersurfaces are compact and without boundary. In the short " sampling time " limit, the bound has asymptotic expansion. Although the expansion can not be represented by locally invariant quantities in general due to the nonlocal nature of the integral, we explicitly evaluate the dominant terms in the limit in terms of the invariant quantities. We also make an estimate for the bound in the long sampling time limit.

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تاریخ انتشار 1997