Dirac Quantum Field on Curved Spacetime: Wick Rotation

2010/02/17 by Müller, Volkhard F.
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1002.3263

Abstract

For a linear Dirac field on a globally hyperbolic static space-time the analytic continuation of its Wightman functions (Green functions) to Schwinger functions and back at zero and finite temperature is shown.

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