Quantum Fluctuations for Gravitational Impulsive Waves
Y. Enginer, M. Hortacsu, N. Ozdemir
TL;DR
This paper investigates quantum fluctuations of a massless scalar field in the background of impulsive gravitational waves, revealing finite fluctuations in de Sitter space, which has implications for understanding quantum effects in curved spacetime.
Contribution
It provides a detailed analysis of quantum fluctuations in impulsive gravitational wave backgrounds, highlighting finite fluctuations specifically in de Sitter space, a novel insight in this context.
Findings
Finite quantum fluctuations in de Sitter space.
Existence of quantum fluctuations in impulsive gravitational wave backgrounds.
Implications for quantum field theory in curved spacetime.
Abstract
Quantum fluctuations for a massless scalar field in the background metric of spherical impulsive gravitational waves through Minkowski and de Sitter spaces are investigated. It is shown that there exist finite fluctuations for de Sitter space.
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