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Vacuum polarization for varying quantum scalar field parameters in Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-11-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Equipped with new powerful and efficient methods for computing quantum expectation values in static-spherically symmetric spacetimes in arbitrary dimensions, we perform an in-depth investigation of how the quantum vacuum polarization varies with the parameters in the theory. In particular, we compute and compare the vacuum polarization for a quantum scalar field in the Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter black hole spacetime for a range of values of the field mass and field coupling constant as well as the black hole mass and number of spacetime dimensions. In addition, a new approximation for the vacuum polarization in asymptotically anti-de Sitter black hole spacetimes is presented.

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@article{arxiv.1809.07781,
  title  = {Vacuum polarization for varying quantum scalar field parameters in Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter spacetime},
  author = {Cormac Breen and Peter Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.07781},
  year   = {2018}
}

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15 pages, 9 figures