Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-10-06
J.Phys.A40:F315-F320,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
v2: 7 pages, minor update, one reference added, published version
Scientific paper
10.1088/1751-8113/40/17/F01
The vacuum expectation value of the electromagnetic energy-momentum tensor between two parallel plates in spacetime dimensions D > 4 is calculated in the axial gauge. While the pressure between the plates agrees with the global Casimir force, the energy density is divergent at the plates and not compatible with the total energy which follows from the force. However, subtracting the divergent self-energies of the plates, the resulting energy is finite and consistent with the force. In analogy with the corresponding scalar case for spacetime dimensions D > 2, the divergent self-energy of a single plate can be related to the lack of conformal invariance of the electromagnetic Lagrangian for dimensions D > 4.
Alnes Havard
Olaussen Kåre
Ravndal Finn
Wehus Ingunn Kathrine
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