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Kaluza-Klein Pistons with non-Commutative Extra Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-04-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We calculate the scalar Casimir energy and Casimir force for a R3×NR^3\times N Kaluza-Klein piston setup in which the extra dimensional space NN contains a non-commutative 2-sphere, SFZS_{FZ}. The cases to be studied are Td×SFZT^d\times S_{FZ} and SFZS_{FZ} respectively as extra dimensional spaces, with TdT^d the dd dimensional commutative torus. The validity of the results and the regularization that the piston setup offers are examined in both cases. Finally we examine the 1-loop corrected Casimir energy for one piston chamber, due to the self interacting scalar field in the non-commutative geometry. The computation is done within some approximations. We compare this case for the same calculation done in Minkowski spacetime MDM^D. A discussion on the stabilization of the extra dimensional space within the piston setup follows at the end of the article.

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@article{arxiv.0905.1465,
  title  = {Kaluza-Klein Pistons with non-Commutative Extra Dimensions},
  author = {V. K. Oikonomou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.1465},
  year   = {2011}
}

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22 pages

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