Fluctuations in the current and energy densities around a magnetic-flux-carrying cosmic string

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/6/304zbMATH Open0976.83060arXivgr-qc/0011074OpenAlexW2079693168MaRDI QIDQ2723199FDOQ2723199

L. Sriramkumar

Publication date: 4 July 2001

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We calculate the fluctuations in the current and energy densities for the case of a quantized, minimally coupled, massless, complex scalar field around a straight and infinitesimally thin cosmic string carrying magnetic flux. At zero temperature, we evaluate the fluctuations in the current and energy densities for arbitrary flux and deficit angle. At a finite temperature, we evaluate the fluctuations in the energy density for the special case wherein the flux is absent and the deficit angle equals $pi$. We find that, quite generically, the dimensionless ratio of the variance to the mean-squared values of the current and energy densities are of order unity which suggests that the fluctuations around cosmic strings can be considered to be large.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0011074

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic stringcomplex scalar fieldmagnetic flux

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Cited In (4)

• Quantum vacuum fluctuation effects in a quasi-periodically identified conical spacetime
• Vacuum bosonic currents induced by a compactified cosmic string in dS background
• Landau quantization in the spinning cosmic string spacetime
• Induced vacuum bosonic current by magnetic flux in a higher dimensional compactified cosmic string spacetime

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