Casimir densities for a spherical shell in the global monopole background

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/16/315zbMATH Open1045.83036arXivhep-th/0302053OpenAlexW2085319147MaRDI QIDQ4470733FDOQ4470733

A. A. Saharian, M. R. Setare

Publication date: 15 June 2004

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

Abstract: We investigate the vacuum expectation values for the energy-momentum tensor of a massive scalar field with general curvature coupling and obeying the Robin boundary condition on a spherical shell in the $D+1$-dimensional global monopole background. The expressions are derived for the Wightman function, the vacuum expectation values of the field square, the vacuum energy density, radial and azimuthal stress components in both regions inside and outside the shell. A regularization procedure is carried out by making use of the generalized Abel-Plana formula for the series over zeros of cylinder functions. This formula allows us to extract from the vacuum expectation values the parts due to the global monopole gravitational field in the situation without a boundary, and to present the boundary induced parts in terms of exponentially convergent integrals, useful, in particular, for numerical calculations. The asymptotic behavior of the vacuum densities is investigated near the sphere surface and at large distances. We show that for small values of the parameter describing the solid angle deficit in global monopole geometry the boundary induced vacuum stresses are strongly anisotropic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0302053

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zbMATH Keywords

regularizationenergy-momentum tensormassive scalar fieldvacuum expectation valuesglobal monopole backgroundglobal monopole geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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