Uses of zeta regularization in QFT with boundary conditions: a cosmo-topological Casimir effect

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2006-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0607185v1

J.Phys.A39:6299-6307,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

9 pages, 1 figure, Talk given at the Seventh International Workshop Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Condi

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/39/21/S21

Zeta regularization has proven to be a powerful and reliable tool for the regularization of the vacuum energy density in ideal situations. With the Hadamard complement, it has been shown to provide finite (and meaningful) answers too in more involved cases, as when imposing physical boundary conditions (BCs) in two-- and higher--dimensional surfaces (being able to mimic, in a very convenient way, other {\it ad hoc} cut-offs, as non-zero depths). What we have considered is the {\it additional} contribution to the cc coming from the non-trivial topology of space or from specific boundary conditions imposed on braneworld models (kind of cosmological Casimir effects). Assuming someone will be able to prove (some day) that the ground value of the cc is zero, as many had suspected until very recently, we will then be left with this incremental value coming from the topology or BCs. We show that this value can have the correct order of magnitude in a number of quite reasonable models involving small and large compactified scales and/or brane BCs, and supergravitons.

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