Instabilities in interacting quantum field theories in non-Minkowskian spacetimes
- 15 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 22 (12) , 3003-3011
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.22.3003
Abstract
Instabilities produced by one-loop quantum effects in quantum field theories in curved spacetime or in flat spacetime with boundaries are discussed. A criterion for the existence of instability is proposed and applied to various models.Keywords
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