Scalar quantum field in an external gravitational field

DOI10.1063/1.524062zbMath0455.35105OpenAlexW2081198346MaRDI QIDQ3903424

Jonathan Dimock

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.524062

zbMATH Keywords

Klein-Gordon equationLorentz metricsexternal gravitational fieldscalar quantum fieldunitary scattering operatorquantum field operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified, higher-dimensional and super field theories (83E99) Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99)

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