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Quantum Fluctuations for Gravitational Impulsive Waves

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-11-19 v1

Abstract

Quantum fluctuations for a massless scalar field in the background metric of spherical impulsive gravitational waves through Minkowski and de Sitter spaces are investigated. It is shown that there exist finite fluctuations for de Sitter space.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9802039,
  title  = {Quantum Fluctuations for Gravitational Impulsive Waves},
  author = {Y. Enginer and M. Hortacsu and N. Ozdemir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9802039},
  year   = {2010}
}

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Submitted to Int. J. Mod. Phys. A