Do Cosmic Strings Give Rise to Vacuum Fluctuations ?
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The role of the identification of the vacuum and non-vacuum space-times in the computation of vacuum fluctuations in the presence of a cosmic string is discussed and an alternative interpretation of the renormalization is proposed. This procedure does not give rise to vacuum fluctuations.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9410022,
title = {Do Cosmic Strings Give Rise to Vacuum Fluctuations ?},
author = {A. H. Bilge and M. Hortacsu and N. Ozdemir},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9410022},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, MRC.PH-18/94, Plain Tex