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Electromagnetic Casimir densities induced by a conducting cylindrical shell in the cosmic string spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We investigate the renormalized vacuum expectation values of the field square and the energy-momentum tensor for the electromagnetic field inside and outside of a conducting cylindrical shell in the cosmic string spacetime. By using the generalized Abel-Plana formula, the vacuum expectation values are presented in the form of the sum of boundary-free and boundary-induced parts. The asymptotic behavior of the vacuum expectation values of the field square, energy density and stresses are investigated in various limiting cases.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0611310,
  title  = {Electromagnetic Casimir densities induced by a conducting cylindrical shell in the cosmic string spacetime},
  author = {E. R. Bezerra de Mello and V. B. Bezerra and A. A. Saharian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0611310},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

14 pages, 2 figures, discussion and references added, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B