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Phys. Rev. D 39, 3596–3605 (1989)

Statistics from dynamics in curved spacetime

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Leonard Parker and Yi Wang
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201

Received 7 February 1989; published in the issue dated 15 June 1989

We consider quantum fields of spin 0, (1/2, 1, (3/2, and 2 with a nonzero mass in curved spacetime. We show that the dynamical Bogolubov transformations associated with gravitationally induced particle creation imply the connection between spin and statistics: By embedding two flat regions in a curved spacetime, we find that only when one imposes Bose-Einstein statistics for an integer-spin field and Fermi-Dirac statistics for a half-integer-spin field in the first flat region is the same type of statistics propagated from the first to the second flat region. This derivation of the flat-spacetime spin-statistics theorem makes use of curved-spacetime dynamics and does not reduce to any proof given in flat spacetime. We also show in the same manner that parastatistics, up to the fourth order, are consistent with the dynamical evolution of curved spacetime.

© 1989 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.39.3596
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.39.3596
PACS:
04.20.Cv, 04.60.+n, 11.10.Ef, 11.10.Qr