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Accelerated Detectors and Temperature in (Anti) de Sitter Spaces
We show, in complete accord with the usual Rindler picture, that detectors
with constant acceleration in de Sitter (dS) and Anti de Sitter (AdS)
spaces with cosmological constants measure temperatures , the detector "5-acceleration" in the
embedding flat 5-space. For dS, this recovers a known result; in AdS, where
is negative, the temperature is well defined down to the critical
value , again in accord with the underlying kinematics. The existence
of a thermal spectrum is also demonstrated for a variety of candidate wave
functions in AdS backgrounds.Comment: Latex +2 Fi
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