Recently it was shown that Dirac’s method of quantizing constrained dynamical systems can be used to impose the Lorenz gauge condition in a four-dimensional cosmological spacetime. In this paper we use Dirac’s method to impose the Lorenz gauge condition in a general four-dimensional conformally flat spacetime and find that there is no particle production. We show that in cosmological spacetimes with dimension $D\ne 4$ there will be particle production when the scale factor changes, and we calculate the particle production due to a sudden change.

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