Fermionic vacuum polarization by a flat boundary in cosmic string spacetime

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/1/015002zbMATH Open1261.83019arXiv1209.3030OpenAlexW3100485942MaRDI QIDQ4911272FDOQ4911272

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Publication date: 14 March 2013

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

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the fermionic condensate and the renormalized vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the energy-momentum tensor for a massive fermionic field induced by a flat boundary in the cosmic string spacetime. In this analysis we assume that the field operator obeys MIT bag boundary condition on the boundary. We explicitly decompose the VEVs into the boundary-free and boundary-induced parts. General formulas are provided for both parts which are valid for any value of the parameter associated with the cosmic string. For a massless field, the boundary-free part in the fermionic condensate and the boundary-induced part in the energy-momentum tensor vanish. For a massive field the radial stress is equal to the energy density for both boundary-free and boundary-induced parts. The boundary-induced part in the stress along the axis of the cosmic string vanishes. The total energy density is negative everywhere, whereas the effective pressure along the azimuthal direction is positive near the boundary and negative near the cosmic string. We show that for points away from the boundary, the boundary-induced parts in the fermionic condensate and in the VEV of the energy-momentum tensor vanish on the string.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3030

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zbMATH Keywords

energy-momentum tensorcosmic stringvacuum polarizationmassless fieldflat boundaryfermionic condensatemassive fermionic fieldrenormalized vacuum expectation valuestring spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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