Killing Horizons

Abstract

QED in two-dimensional Minkowski space contains a single physical state as seen by an inertial observer or by a constantly accelerating Rindler observer. However in Feynman gauge if one takes a generic representative of the physical Minkowski state and traces over all left Rindler states, one does not arrive at a physical right Rindler state, but rather at a "density matrix" with negative eigenvalues for negative norm states corresponding intuitively to the radiation of uncorrelated temporal photons and ghosts. This reflects the fact that states that are exact under the Minkowski BRST operator are not necessarily exact or even closed under the Rindler BRST operator. Such situations are avoided when there are quantum corrections to the Hamiltonian that eliminate the horizons, which yield Mathurian fuzzball solutions.