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Cancellation of unphysical gauge and ghost degrees of freedom in backreaction

Masaru Onoda

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9307191

Abstract

We study the U(1) Higgs model in spacetime-dependent background fields (a background metric and a background scalar field). Particle creation can occur because of the time-dependence of these background fields. In gauge theories, there is a unphysical sector and consequently unphysical particles may be produced. However, it is shown that produced unphysical particles have no contribution to backreaction to background fields.

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