Quantum Fluctuations of Scalar Field in Conical Space
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We consider vacuum polarization effect of a conformally coupled massless scalar field in the background produced by an idealized straight cosmic string. Using previous criterion we show the calculation of back reaction of the field to the metric in the context of semiclassical gravity theory is not valid , in some regions due to large quantum fluctuations in the conical space.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9705041,
title = {Quantum Fluctuations of Scalar Field in Conical Space},
author = {Chung-I Kuo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9705041},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, RevTeX file, no figure, to appear in Phys. Lett. B