Vacuum energy in conical space with additional boundary conditions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/17/175020zbMATH Open1225.83040arXiv1003.0886OpenAlexW2055871535MaRDI QIDQ3173097FDOQ3173097

V. V. Nesterenko, I. G. Pirozhenko

Publication date: 10 October 2011

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

Abstract: Total vacuum energy of some quantized fields in conical space with additional boundary conditions is calculated. These conditions are imposed on a cylindrical surface which is coaxial with the symmetry axis of conical space. The explicit form of the matching conditions depends on the field under consideration. In the case of electromagnetic field, the perfectly conducting boundary conditions or isorefractive matching conditions are imposed on the cylindrical surface. For a massless scalar field, the semi-transparent conditions ($delta$-potential) on the cylindrical shell are investigated. As a result, the total Casimir energy of electromagnetic field and scalar field, per a unit length along the symmetry axis, proves to be finite unlike the case of an infinitely thin cosmic string. In these studies the spectral zeta functions are widely used. It is shown briefly how to apply this technique for obtaining the asymptotics of the relevant thermodynamical functions in the high temperature limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0886

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Cited In (4)

• Vacuum interaction of conic singularities
• Fermionic condensate and the Casimir effect in cosmic string spacetime
• Electrodynamics with charged strings
• Fermionic vacuum polarization around a cosmic string in compactified AdS spacetime

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