1999/09/02 by F. Finelli, F Finelli, A. Gruppuso +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/16/12/310
published as Class.Quant.Grav.16:3923-3935,1999 · 15 pp, no figures, accepted for publication in Class. Quantum Grav
arxiv created 1999/09/02 · openalex publication_date 1999/11/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
We extend our analysis for scalar fields in a Robertson-Walker metric to the electromagnetic and Dirac fields by the method of invariants. The issue of the relation between conformal properties and particle production is re-examined and it is verified that the electromagnetic and massless spinor actions are conformal invariant, while the massless conformally coupled scalar field is not. For the scalar field case it is pointed out that the violation of conformal symmetry due to surface terms, although not influential for the equations of motion, does lead to effects in the quantized theory.