Stephen A. Fulling

Stephen Albert Fulling (born 29 April 1945, Evansville, Indiana) is an American mathematician and mathematical physicist, specializing in the mathematics of quantum theory, general relativity, and the spectral and asymptotic theory of differential operators.[1] He is known for preliminary work that led to the discovery of the hypothetical Unruh effect (sometimes called the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect).[2]

Education and career

After secondary education at Missouri's Lindbergh High School,[3] Fulling graduated in 1967 with A.B. in physics from Harvard University. At Princeton University he became a graduate student in physics and received M.S. in 1969 and Ph.D. in 1972.[4] His thesis Scalar Quantum Field Theory in a Closed Universe of Constant Curvature was supervised by Arthur Wightman.[5] Fulling was a postdoc from 1972 to 1974 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and from 1974 to 1976 at King’s College London. At Texas A&M University he joined the mathematics faculty in 1976[3] and was promoted to full professor in 1984. In addition to mathematics, he holds a joint appointment in physics and astronomy.[4]

In addition to more than a hundred papers and publications, he has authored two books, Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time (Cambridge University Press, 1989) and Linearity and the Mathematics of Several Variables (World Scientific, 2000).[3]

In 2018 Fulling was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. He has also been elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[3]

Selected publications

Articles
  • Parker, Leonard; Fulling, S. A. (1973). "Quantized Matter Fields and the Avoidance of Singularities in General Relativity". Physical Review D. 7 (8): 2357–2374. Bibcode:1973PhRvD...7.2357P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.7.2357.
  • Fulling, Stephen A. (1973). "Nonuniqueness of Canonical Field Quantization in Riemannian Space-Time". Physical Review D. 7 (10): 2850–2862. Bibcode:1973PhRvD...7.2850F. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.7.2850.
  • Parker, Leonard; Fulling, S. A. (1974). "Adiabatic regularization of the energy-momentum tensor of a quantized field in homogeneous spaces". Physical Review D. 9 (2): 341–354. Bibcode:1974PhRvD...9..341P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.9.341.
  • Fulling, S. A.; Parker, Leonard; Hu, B. L. (1974). "Conformal energy-momentum tensor in curved spacetime: Adiabatic regularization and renormalization". Physical Review D. 10 (12): 3905–3924. Bibcode:1974PhRvD..10.3905F. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.10.3905.
  • Fulling, S. A.; Davies, P. C. W. (1976). "Radiation from a Moving Mirror in Two Dimensional Space-Time: Conformal Anomaly". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 348 (1654): 393–414. Bibcode:1976RSPSA.348..393F. doi:10.1098/rspa.1976.0045. S2CID 122176090.
  • Davies, P. C. W.; Fulling, S. A.; Unruh, W. G. (1976). "Energy-momentum tensor near an evaporating black hole". Physical Review D. 13 (10): 2720–2723. Bibcode:1976PhRvD..13.2720D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.13.2720. S2CID 124632555.
  • Christensen, S. M.; Fulling, S. A. (1977). "Trace anomalies and the Hawking effect". Physical Review D. 15 (8): 2088–2104. Bibcode:1977PhRvD..15.2088C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.15.2088.
  • Fulling, Stephen A.; Sweeny, Mark; Wald, Robert M. (1978). "Singularity structure of the two-point function in quantum field theory in curved spacetime". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 63 (3): 257–264. doi:10.1007/BF01196934. ISSN 0010-3616. S2CID 122555856.
  • Fulling, S.A; Narcowich, F.J; Wald, Robert M (1981). "Singularity structure of the two-point function in quantum field theory in curved spacetime, II". Annals of Physics. 136 (2): 243–272. doi:10.1016/0003-4916(81)90098-1. ISSN 0003-4916.
  • Fulling, S. A.; Kennedy, G. (1988). "The resolvent parametrix of the general elliptic linear differential operator: a closed form for the intrinsic symbol". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 310 (2): 583. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1988-0973171-5. ISSN 0002-9947.
  • Chen, G.; Fulling, S. A.; Narcowich, F. J.; Sun, S. (1991). "Exponential Decay of Energy of Evolution Equations with Locally Distributed Damping". SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 51 (1): 266–301. doi:10.1137/0151015. ISSN 0036-1399.
  • Fulling, S. A.; King, R. C.; Wybourne, B. G.; Cummins, C. J. (1992). "Normal forms for tensor polynomials. I. The Riemann tensor". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 9 (5): 1151–1198. Bibcode:1992CQGra...9.1151F. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/9/5/003.
  • Fulling, S. A. (2003). "Systematics of the relationship between vacuum energy calculations and heat-kernel coefficients". Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. 36 (24): 6857–6873. arXiv:quant-ph/0302117. doi:10.1088/0305-4470/36/24/320. ISSN 0305-4470. S2CID 11676525.
  • Fulling, Stephen A.; Milton, Kimball A.; Parashar, Prachi; Romeo, August; Shajesh, K. V.; Wagner, Jef (2007). "How does Casimir energy fall?". Physical Review D. 76 (2): 025004. arXiv:hep-th/0702091. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.025004. ISSN 1550-7998. S2CID 941272.
  • Trendafilova, C. S.; Fulling, S. A. (2011). "Static solutions of Einstein's equations with cylindrical symmetry". European Journal of Physics. 32 (6): 1663–1677. arXiv:1101.4668. doi:10.1088/0143-0807/32/6/020. ISSN 0143-0807. S2CID 119225027.
  • Ben-Benjamin, J. S.; Scully, M. O.; Fulling, S. A.; Lee, D. M.; Page, D. N.; Svidzinsky, A. A.; Zubairy, M. S.; Duff, M. J.; Glauber, R.; Schleich, W. P.; Unruh, W. G. (2019). "Unruh acceleration radiation revisited". International Journal of Modern Physics A. 34 (28): 1941005. arXiv:1906.01729. doi:10.1142/S0217751X19410057. ISSN 0217-751X. S2CID 174799558.
  • Li, Yang; Milton, Kimball A.; Guo, Xin; Kennedy, Gerard; Fulling, Stephen A. (2019). "Casimir forces in inhomogeneous media: Renormalization and the principle of virtual work". Physical Review D. 99 (12). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.125004. ISSN 2470-0010.

Books

References
  1. "Stephen Fulling, Texas A&M University". community.wolfram.com.
  2. Fulling, Davies, and Unruh were in communication, and the full significance of the mathematical phenomenon was unclear until Unruh related it to both temperature and particle detectors. In 2019 Fulling and Wilson suggested that what Davies discovered is a separate effect. Fulling, S A; Wilson, J H (2019). "The equivalence principle at work in radiation from unaccelerated atoms and mirrors" (PDF). Physica Scripta. 94 (1): 014004. doi:10.1088/1402-4896/aaecaa. ISSN 0031-8949. S2CID 21706009.
  3. "Texas A&M Mathematician Stephen Fulling Elected as American Physical Society Fellow". Texas A&M, Science (science.tamu.edu). 31 October 2018.
  4. "Stephen Fulling". Mathematics, Texas A&M University (math.tamu.edu).
  5. Stephen Albert Fulling at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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