Without a preferred timelike Killing flow there is no canonical positive-frequency splitting. Different choices are related by Bogoliubov transformations and generally define different particle notions and vacuum states.
A Bogoliubov transformation is a linear canonical transformation that mixes positive- and negative-frequency modes, and therefore mixes annihilation and creation operators. A nonzero mixing coefficient makes one vacuum contain particles relative to the other mode decomposition.
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