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Casimir energy density in closed hyperbolic universes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

The original Casimir effect results from the difference in the vacuum energies of the electromagnetic field, between that in a region of space with boundary conditions and that in the same region without boundary conditions. In this paper we develop the theory of a similar situation, involving a scalar field in spacetimes with compact spatial sections of negative spatial curvature.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0205050,
  title  = {Casimir energy density in closed hyperbolic universes},
  author = {Daniel Muller and Helio V. Fagundes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0205050},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages. Contribution to the "Fifth Alexander Friedmann International Seminar on Gravitation and Cosmology," Joao Pessoa, Brazil, 2002. Revised version, with altered Abstract and one new reference