Quantum fields interacting with colliding plane waves: The stress-energy tensor and backreaction

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 484, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 435-475

  Dorca, Miquel ^a   Verdaguer, Enric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colliding plane waves; Quantum field theory in curved space time; Semiclassical gravity; Stress tensor renormalization; Vacuum stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031579090     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00575-5     Document Type: Article

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