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Winitzki - Errata 2009 To Book Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime
Winitzki - Errata 2009 To Book Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime
Winitzki - Errata 2009 To Book Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime
Winitzki, Introdu
tion to quantum elds in gravity (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
by S. Winitzki
Please note: this draft version dating from 2004 is obsolete and not at all syn
hronized with the nal book version! Almost every paragraph was rewritten in
the nal published version; some material was deleted, new substantial material
was added, and mistakes were
orre
ted.
On page 121, the statement is made erroneously that an observer remaining at a
onstant value of the Kruskal
oordinate
dpf
dp0 .
On page 253, the text says that the boundary terms in the integral were
omitted.
fa
tor
In Part 2 of the solution to Exer
ise 5.1, we negle
ted to symmetrize the
fun
tional derivative with respe
t to the Christoel symbol.
solution in
omplete. A
orre
ted solution for this part of the exer
ise
an be
found here:
[Part 2 of the solution of Exer
ise 5.1 should be as follows.
times
Z
gd4 x g , = d4 x
gg , ,
Z
Z
4
gd x g , = d4 x ( gg ), .
an be read o
from these integrals. The terms bilinear in need to be rewritten twi
e, with
at the rst pla
e or at the se
ond pla
e:
= = ,
= = .
One needs to take
are that
For this reason, the fun tional derivatives are omputed by omitting
Z
, :
1
gg + gg , ,
2
Z
1 1
gg
d
x
=
gg
2 2
1 1
= g g + g + g ,
2
2
Z
1
gg +
gg d4 x =
2
1
gg +
2
= g ( g + g ) .
d4 x ( gg ),
0=
is
1
S
gg , +
gg + gg ,
=
2
1
g.
+ g + g + g g
2
above into
derivatives of
).
g
by
g g
The derivatives of
g and of g are expressed through
as
g =
The
ommon fa
tor
for :
g
g g, ;
2
g = g g g, .
1
(g g + g g ) g g
g + g
2
1
1
= g g g, g, + (g g, g g, + 2g g, + 2g g, ) g .
2
4
This is a
ompli
ated (although linear) equation that needs to be solved for
One way is to separate the terms on both sides by their index symmetry and
by their dependen
e on
we lower the index
in
g .
g .
dened by
, .
1
g g + g (g + g ) ( + )
2
1
1
= g g g, g, + (g g, g g, + 2g g, + 2g g, ) g .
2
4
(1)
In order to solve this equation, we need to use the symmetry properties of
. We note that Eq. (1)
ontains
ontra
tions of the form g as well as
g . Therefore, we de
ompose into parts that have zero
ontra
tions,
1
g .
4
(1)
By
onstru
tion we then have g
= 0, while (1) has the same symmetries
as . Then we separate terms proportional to g , taking into a
ount the
symmetry and preserving the tra
e-free property with respe
t to , : so we
(1)
A g ,
dene
(2)
(1)
1
g B + g B g B ,
2
2 (1)
g .
9
2
With this denition (and with the
oe
ient 9 ), we have the desired properties
(2)
g = 0,
(2)
g = 0,
(2)
(2)
= .
1
(2)
= g A + g B + g B g B + .
2
Note that this de
omposition is unique: the quantities
uniquely determined by
(2)
, A ,
and
are
(2)
(2)
+ = g, (...),
g, .
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
+ + +
(2)
= 2 = g, + g, g, (...) .
3
This an be rewritten as
(...) =
1
(g, + g, g, ) (...) ,
2
where the omitted terms are those resulting from the de
omposition of
1
in the left-hand side and from
2 (g, + g, g, ) in the right-hand side.
1
Thus we
on
lude that the tra
e-free parts of and of 2 (g, + g, g, )
are equal. We
an therefore write
=
where
1
1
(g, + g, g, ) + g C + g E + g E g E ,
2
2
and
1
(g, + g, g, ) ,
2
(2)