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- Why do the so-called unruh modes which are extensions of Rindler modes share the same vacuum as the Minkowski modes, as explained in Carroll's Spacetime and geometry?
In Carroll "Spacetime and Geometry" I found the following explanation for why the analytically extended rindler modes share the same vacuum state as the Minkowski vacuum state:
I can't quite understand why the fact that the extended modes [\tex]h_k^{(1),(2)}[\tex] are analytic and bounded on the same region as the Minkowski modes proves that [\tex]h_k^{(1),(2)}[\tex] can be expressed in terms of positive-frequency Minkowski modes only. Why are negative frequency modes out of the picture?
I can't quite understand why the fact that the extended modes [\tex]h_k^{(1),(2)}[\tex] are analytic and bounded on the same region as the Minkowski modes proves that [\tex]h_k^{(1),(2)}[\tex] can be expressed in terms of positive-frequency Minkowski modes only. Why are negative frequency modes out of the picture?