A remark on alpha vacua for quantum field theories on de Sitter space
Abstract
It is shown that the so-called α-vacua which have been proposed as candidates for states of free quantum fields on de Sitter space have infinitely strong fluctuations for typical observables as averaged renormalized energy momentum tensor.
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