The Vacuum Energy Density for Spherical and Cylindrical Universes

Details The Vacuum Energy Density for Spherical and Cylindrical Universes The Vacuum Energy Density for Spherical and Cylindrical Universes

1993-08-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9308048v1

J.Math.Phys.35:3308-3321,1994

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

18 pages, LaTeX, august 5

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.530469

The vacuum energy density (Casimir energy) corresponding to a massless scalar quantum field living in different universes (mainly no-boundary ones), in several dimensions, is calculated. Hawking's zeta function regularization procedure supplemented with a very simple binomial expansion is shown to be a rigorous and well suited method for performing the analysis. It is compared with other, much more involved techniques. The principal-part prescription is used to deal with the poles that eventually appear. Results of the analysis are the absence of poles at four dimensions (for a 4d Riemann sphere and for a 4d cylinder of 3d Riemann spherical section), the total coincidence of the results corresponding to a 3d and a 4d cylinder (the first after pole subtraction), and the fact that the vacuum energy density for cylinders is (in absolute value) over an order of magnitude smaller than for spheres of the same dimension.

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