Speaker
Elizabeth Winstanley
(University of Sheffield)
Description
We study the back-reaction of a quantum scalar field on anti-de Sitter (AdS) space-time. The renormalized expectation value of the stress-energy tensor operator (RSET) for a quantum scalar field on global AdS space-time acts as a source term on the right-hand-side of the Einstein equations for the quantum-corrected metric. We find the RSETs for rotating and nonrotating thermal states on global AdS and compare them with results from relativistic kinetic theory. We then solve the quantum-corrected Einstein equations. We interpret these quantum-corrected metrics as asymptotically-AdS solitons.
Primary author
Elizabeth Winstanley
(University of Sheffield)
Co-author
Mr
Jacob Thompson
(University of Sheffield)
