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We explore and discuss corrections to the Newton potential from the quantum effects of conformal matter fields. In this special case, one can compare different approaches, including that of effective quantum gravity and another, based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Riccardo Fecchio , Ilya L. Shapiro

We study the quantum radiation from a curved background using scalar observables constructed from the (1+1) dimensional renormalized stress-energy tensor (RSET). We compute energy density $\cal U$, flux $\cal F$ and pressure $\cal P$ for an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-13 Micheal S. Berger , Zhi Liu

We report here on a new method for calculating the renormalized stress-energy tensor (RSET) in black-hole (BH) spacetimes, which should also be applicable to dynamical BHs and to spinning BHs. This new method only requires the spacetime to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-02 Adam Levi , Amos Ori

The conformal anomaly (also known as the stress-energy trace anomaly) of an interacting quantum theory, associated with violation of Weyl (conformal) symmetry by quantum effects, can be amended if one endows the theory with a dilatation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-04 Stefano Lucat , Tomislav Prokopec

The Averaged Null Energy Condition (ANEC) states that the integral along a complete null geodesic of the projection of the stress-energy tensor onto the tangent vector to the geodesic cannot be negative. ANEC can be used to rule out…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-23 Eleni-Alexandra Kontou

We investigate the massless scalar field perturbations of a new loop quantum gravity motivated regular black hole proposed by Ashtekar {\it et al.} in [Phys.Rev.Lett. 121, 241301 (2018), Phys.Rev.D 98, 126003 (2018)]. The spacetime of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Ramin G. Daghigh , Michael D. Green , Gabor Kunstatter

Higher curvature corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert term may play an important role in probing the strong-field regime of gravity. In this letter, we demonstrate that the local effective action reproducing the trace anomaly can resemble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Giorgi Tukhashvili

Building on general formulas obtained from the approximate renormalized effective action, the stress-energy tensor of the quantized massive spinor and vector fields in the spacetime of the regular black hole is constructed. Such a black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-28 Jerzy Matyjasek

We provide a mode-sum prescription to directly compute the renormalized stress-energy tensor (RSET) for scalar fields in the Boulware vacuum. The method generalizes the recently developed extended coordinate method which was previously only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-16 Julio Arrechea , Cormac Breen , Adrian Ottewill , Lorenzo Pisani , Peter Taylor

We discuss the properties of the previously constructed model of a Schwarzschild black hole interior where the singularity is replaced by a regular bounce, ultimately leading to a white hole. The model is semiclassical in nature and uses as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 K. A. Bronnikov , S. V. Bolokhov , M. V. Skvortsova

In quantum field theory in curved backgrounds, one typically distinguishes between objective, tensorial, quantities such as the Renormalized Stress-Energy Tensor (RSET) and subjective, non-tensorial, quantities such as Bogoliubov…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-19 Luis C. Barbado , Carlos Barceló , Luis J. Garay , Gil Jannes

Quantum stress-energy tensors of fields renormalized on a Schwarzschild background violate the classical energy conditions near the black hole. Nevertheless, the associated equilibrium thermodynamical entropy $\Delta S$ by which such fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 David Hochberg , Thomas Kephart , James W. York

The approximate stress-energy tensor of the conformally invariant massless spin-1/2 field in the Hartle-Hawking state in the Schwarzschild spacetime is constructed. It is shown that by solving the conservation equation in conformal space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jerzy Matyjasek

The stress-energy tensor for the massless spin 1/2 field is numerically computed outside and on the event horizons of both charged and uncharged static non-rotating black holes, corresponding to the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric D. Carlson , William H. Hirsch , Benedikt Obermayer , Paul R. Anderson , Peter B. Groves

The next-to-leading term of the renormalized stress-energy tensor of the quantized massive field with an arbitrary curvature coupling in the spacetime of the Schwarzschild black hole is constructed. It is achieved by functional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Jerzy Matyjasek , Dariusz Tryniecki

We discuss the derivation of the trace anomaly using a non-local effective action at one loop. This provides a simple and instructive form and emphasizes infrared physics. We then use this example to explore several of the properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-23 John F. Donoghue , Basem Kamal El-Menoufi

We compare the canonical quantization and the effective action method to derive expectation values of the stress energy tensor for scalar fields conformally coupled to a 2D Schwarzschild black hole spacetime. Particular attention is devoted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Balbinot , A. Fabbri

We develop the effective field theory (EFT) of perturbations in the context of scalar-tensor theories with a spacelike scalar profile on arbitrary black hole backgrounds. Our construction of the EFT is based on the fact that in the unitary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-16 Shinji Mukohyama , Emeric Seraille , Kazufumi Takahashi , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

Odd-dimensional quantum field theories (QFTs) can have nonzero trace anomalies if external fields are introduced and some ingredients needed to make Lorentz scalars with appropriate mass dimensions (or weights) are supplied. We have studied…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Ken Kikuchi , Hiroto Hosoda , Akihiro Suzuki

Minimally coupled 4D scalar fields in Schwarzschild space-time are considered. Dimensional reduction to 2D leads to a well known anomaly induced effective action, which we consider here in a local form with the introduction of auxiliary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Balbinot , A. Fabbri