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Casimir energy of Sierpinski triangles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-12-01 v2

Abstract

Using scaling arguments and the property of self-similarity we derive the Casimir energies of Sierpinski triangles and Sierpinski rectangles. The Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension (fractal dimension) of the Casimir energy is introduced and the Berry-Weyl conjecture is discussed for these geometries. We propose that for a class of fractals, comprising of compartmentalized cavities, it is possible to establish a finite value to the Casimir energy even while the Casimir energy of the individual cavities consists of divergent terms.

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@article{arxiv.1709.06284,
  title  = {Casimir energy of Sierpinski triangles},
  author = {K. V. Shajesh and Prachi Parashar and Inés Cavero-Peláez and Jerzy Kocik and Iver Brevik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.06284},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures, minor typos corrected