Accelerating Branes and Brane Temperature

dc.creatorRusso, J. G.
dc.creatorTownsend, P. K.
dc.date2008-05-22
dc.date2008-06-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:51:02Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:51:02Z
dc.descriptionWe define the local acceleration and jerk of a relativistic brane in an ambient spacetime, and construct from them a dimensionless parameter lambda that must be small for an interpretation of brane acceleration as local Unruh temperature. As examples, we discuss (i) open rotating branes, for which lambda>1 (ii) closed spherical branes expanding in Minkowski spacetime, for which lambda=0 when the worldvolume is either an Einstein static universe or de Sitter space, in which case the brane temperature equals the Gibbons-Hawking temperature, (iii) closed spherical branes in anti-de Sitter spacetime, for which a maximally symmetric worldvolume is anti-de Sitter, Minkowski or de Sitter according to whether the magnitude of the brane acceleration is less than, equal to or greater than a `critical' value, and (iv) the BTZ black hole, viewed as a membrane.
dc.description32 pages, small corrections
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3488
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3488
dc.identifierClass.Quant.Grav.25:175017,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/17/175017
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/203763
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleAccelerating Branes and Brane Temperature
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