Ground state energy and topological mass in spacetimes with nontrivial topology
High Energy Physics - Theory
2021-07-06 v3
Abstract
In the present paper, we investigate the ground state energy of a massless scalar field and generation of topological mass by considering a quasi-periodically identified Minkowski spacetime and the `half-Einstein Universe', that is, an Einstein Universe where the massless scalar field propagates under Dirichlet boundary condition. The analysis is performed considering one and two-loop corrections to the effective potential in both cases. Our results are compared with previous results found in literature.
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@article{arxiv.1908.00511,
title = {Ground state energy and topological mass in spacetimes with nontrivial topology},
author = {Paulo J. Porfírio and Herondy F. Santana Mota and Gabriel Queiroz Garcia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00511},
year = {2021}
}
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17 pages, 2 figures