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We compute the renormalized stress-energy tensor for a massless quantum scalar field in the background of the horizonless Bardeen spacetime. Within the weak-field approximation, we show that the vacuum fluctuations differ significantly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-17 Andrés Boasso , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

We use wave packet mode quantization to compute the creation of massless scalar quantum particles in a colliding plane wave spacetime. The background spacetime represents the collision of two gravitational shock waves followed by trailing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Miquel Dorca , Enric Verdaguer

We employ a recently developed mode-sum regularization method to compute the renormalized stress-energy tensor of a quantum field in the Kerr background metric (describing a stationary spinning black hole). More specifically, we consider a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-12 Adam Levi , Ehud Eilon , Amos Ori , Maarten van de Meent

We study classical and quantum aspects of electromagnetic perturbations on black hole space-times. We develop an elegant formalism introduced by Wald, which sets up the theory of linear perturbations in a Type-D background in a compact and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-14 Marc Casals

We analyse a quantum observer who falls geodesically towards the Cauchy horizon of a $(1+1)$-dimensional eternal black hole spacetime with the global structure of the non-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om solution. The observer interacts with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-15 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

In this work we analyse the backreaction of a quantum field on a spherically symmetric black hole geometry with an inner horizon, i.e. an internal boundary of the trapped region. We start with a black hole background with an inner horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-12 Carlos Barceló , Valentin Boyanov , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Luis J. Garay

We study in a Brill-Hartle type of approximation the back reaction of a superposition of linear gravitational waves on the mean gravitational field up to second order in the wave amplitudes. The background field is taken as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Dautcourt

Boson stars have been extensively studied in classical gravity, but their quantum properties remain comparatively unexplored. In this paper, we compute the quantum scalar fields and stress tensor in boson star spacetimes within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Paul M. Saffin , Qi-Xin Xie

We compute the renormalized expectation value of the stress-energy tensor operator for a quantum scalar field propagating on three-dimensional global anti-de Sitter space-time. The scalar field has general mass and nonminimal coupling to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-23 Sivakumar Namasivayam , Elizabeth Winstanley

The singular behaviour of quantum fields in Minkowski space can often be bounded by polynomials of the Hamiltonian $H$. These so-called $H$-bounds and related techniques allow us to handle pointwise quantum fields and their operator product…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Ko Sanders

For many quantum field theory computations in cosmology it is not possible to use the flat space trick of obtaining full, interacting states by evolving free states over infinite times. State wave functionals must be specified at finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-22 E. O. Kahya , V. K. Onemli , R. P. Woodard

The first-order semiclassical Einstein field equations are solved in the interior of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes. The source term is taken to be the stress-energy tensor of the quantized massive scalar field with arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-19 Jerzy Matyjasek , Pawel Sadurski

A phenomenological framework is presented for incorporating quantum gravity motivated corrections into the dynamics of spherically symmetric collapse. The effective equations are derived from a variational principle that guarantees energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-14 Jonathan Ziprick , Gabor Kunstatter

We investigate a stress-energy tensor for a CFT at strong coupling inside a small five-dimensional rotating Myers-Perry black hole with equal angular momenta by using the holographic method. As a gravitational dual, we perturbatively…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-19 Akihiro Ishibashi , Kengo Maeda , Eric Mefford

We explore the collision of two cylindrical bubbles in classical general relativity with a scalar field stress-energy tensor. Inside each bubble the field rests at a local minimum of the potential with non-negative energy density. Outside…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-10 Yu-ichi Takamizu , David Chernoff

We study the renormalized stress-energy tensor (RSET) for static quantum states on (n+1)-dimensional, static, spherically symmetric black holes. By solving the conservation equations, we are able to write the stress-energy tensor in terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Dean Morgan , Stuart Thom , Elizabeth Winstanley , Phil M. Young

A quadratic semiclassical theory, regarding the interaction of gravity with a massive scalar quantum field, is considered in view of the renormalizable energy-momentum tensor in a multi-dimensional curved spacetime. According to it, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Kleidis , A. Kuiroukidis , D. B. Papadopoulos

This is the second and last paper of a series aimed at solving the local Cauchy problem for polarized $\mathbb U(1)$ symmetric solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations featuring the nonlinear interaction of three small amplitude impulsive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-28 Jonathan Luk , Maxime Van de Moortel

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

The article proposes an amendment to the relativistic continuum mechanics which introduces the relationship between density tensors and the curvature of spacetime. The resulting formulation of a symmetric stress-energy tensor for a system…

General Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Piotr Ogonowski