Particle production from nonlocal gravitational effective action
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In this paper we show how the nonlocal effective action for gravity, obtained after integrating out the matter fields, can be used to compute particle production and spectra for different space-time metrics. Applying this technique to several examples, we find that the perturbative calculation of the effective action up to second order in curvatures yields exactly the same results for the total number of particles as the Bogolyubov transformations method, in the case of masless scalar fields propagating in a Robertson-Walker space-time. Using an adiabatic approximation we also obtain the corresponding spectra and compare the results with the traditional WKB approximation.
22 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Corrected version with new comments and results. To appear in Phys. Rev. D
22 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Corrected version with new comments and results. To appear in Phys. Rev. D