Ground state energy of massive scalar field inside a spherical region in the global monopole background

DOI10.1063/1.1333699zbMath1013.81041arXivhep-th/0012264OpenAlexW3104607539MaRDI QIDQ2774783

Eugênio R. Bezerra De Mello, Nail R. Khusnutdinov, Valdir B. Bezerra

Publication date: 26 February 2002

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using the zeta function regularization method we calculate the ground state energy of scalar massive field inside a spherical region in the space-time of a point-like global monopole. Two cases are investigated: (i) We calculate the Casimir energy inside a sphere of radius $R$ and make an analytical analysis about it. We observe that this energy may be positive or negative depending on metric coefficient $alpha$ and non-conformal coupling $xi$. In the limit $R oinfty$ we found a zero result. (ii) In the second model we surround the monopole by additional sphere of radius $r_0<R$ and consider scalar field confined in the region between these two spheres. In the latter, the ground state energy presents an additional contribution due to boundary at $r_0$ which is divergent for small radius. Additional comments about renormalization are considered.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0012264

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization Casimir energy inside a sphere of nonconformal coupling zeta function regularization method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52)

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