Gravitational shock waves and vacuum fluctuations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/5/022zbMATH Open0942.83030arXivhep-th/9802072OpenAlexW3121865632MaRDI QIDQ4936795FDOQ4936795

M. Hortaçsu, K. Ülker

Publication date: 1 February 2000

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

Abstract: We show that the vacuum expectation value of the stress-energy tensor of a scalar particle on the background of a spherical gravitational shock wave does not give a finite expression in second order perturbation theory, contrary to the case seen for the impulsive wave. No infrared divergences appear at this order. This result shows that there is a qualitative difference between the shock and impulsive wave solutions which is not exhibited in first order.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9802072

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zbMATH Keywords

scalar particleno infrared divergencesspherical gravitational shock wavevacuum expectation value of the stress-energy tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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• Invariance of Unruh and Hawking radiation under matter-induced supertranslations
• Fluctuations of a spherical gravitational impulsive wave
• A note on quantization in the presence of gravitational shock waves
• Comparison of exact and perturbative results for two metrics.

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