Is the equivalence for the response of static scalar sources in the Schwarzschild and Rindler spacetimes valid only in four dimensions?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Is the equivalence for the response of static scalar sources in the Schwarzschild and Rindler spacetimes valid only in four dimensions?

AU - Crispino, L C B

AU - Higuchi, A

AU - Matsas, G E A

PY - 2004/12

Y1 - 2004/12

N2 - It was shown recently that in four dimensions scalar sources with fixed proper acceleration minimally coupled to a massless Klein-Gordon field lead to the same responses when they are (i) uniformly accelerated in Minkowski spacetime (in the inertial vacuum) and (ii) static in the Schwarzschild spacetime (in the Unruh vacuum). Here we show that this equivalence is broken if the spacetime dimension is more than four.

AB - It was shown recently that in four dimensions scalar sources with fixed proper acceleration minimally coupled to a massless Klein-Gordon field lead to the same responses when they are (i) uniformly accelerated in Minkowski spacetime (in the inertial vacuum) and (ii) static in the Schwarzschild spacetime (in the Unruh vacuum). Here we show that this equivalence is broken if the spacetime dimension is more than four.

KW - TENSOR SPHERICAL-HARMONICS

U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.127504

DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.127504

M3 - Article

SN - 0556-2821

VL - 70

SP - -

JO - Physical Review D

JF - Physical Review D

IS - 12

M1 - 127504

ER -