On Aspects of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Rindler and Anti-de Sitter spacetimes for the $O(N)$ Linear Sigma Model

Abstract

We investigate aspects of spontaneous breakdown of symmetry for $O(N)$ symmetric linear sigma model in the background of Rindler and Anti-de Sitter spacetimes respectively. In the large $N$ limit, by computing the one-loop effective action, we report that in three dimensional Rindler space, there is a phase transition from the disordered phase to an ordered phase past a certain critical Rindler acceleration parameter `$a$'. Connections with finite temperature field theory results are established, thereby further reinforcing the idea that Rindler space can indeed be a proxy for Minkowski spacetime with finite temperature. We extend our calculations to Anti-de Sitter space in various dimensions and observe that symmetry is broken in three dimensions, but not in four dimensions. We discuss the implications of our results.