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We show that inclusion of temperature corrections in the quantum theory of massless fermion fields in Friedmann space-time results in a conformal invariance of the theory (no particle production and vacuum polarization).
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 1, pp. 90–94, January, 1990.
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Pritomanov, S.A. Quantum effects of variable-mass fermion fields in the Friedmann model. Soviet Physics Journal 33, 78–82 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00896271
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00896271