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Awaking the vacuum with spheroidal shells

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-06-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It has been shown that well-behaved spacetimes may induce the vacuum fluctuations of some nonminimally coupled free scalar fields to go through a phase of exponential growth. Here, we discuss this mechanism in the context of spheroidal thin shells emphasizing the consequences of deviations from spherical symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1304.0582,
  title  = {Awaking the vacuum with spheroidal shells},
  author = {William C. C. Lima and Raissa F. P. Mendes and George E. A. Matsas and Daniel A. T. Vanzella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0582},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

10 pages, 7 figures. Minor changes, version published on Phys. Rev. D

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