The Casimir Effect of Curved Space-time (formal developments)
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The free energy due to the vacuum fluctuations of matter fields on a classical gravitational background is discussed. It is shown explicitly how this energy is calculated for a non-minimally coupled scalar field in an arbitrary gravitational background, using the heat kernel method. The treatment of (self-)interacting fields of higher spin is outlined, using a meanfield approximation to the gaugefield when treating the gauge boson self interaction and the fermion-gauge boson interaction.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9608142,
title = {The Casimir Effect of Curved Space-time (formal developments)},
author = {Karsten Bormann and Frank Antonsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9608142},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 16 pages, appears in Proceedings of the 3rd International Alexander Friedman Seminar on Gravitation and Cosmology, Friedman Lab. Press, St. Petersburg 1995