Vacuum polarization in two-dimensional static spacetimes and dimensional reduction

Physical Review D

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Balbinot, Roberto ^a   Fabbri, Alessandro ^a   Nicolini, Piero ^a   Sutton, Patrick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GAS; GEOMETRY; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SPACE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; VACUUM;

EID: 0037101297     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.024014     Document Type: Article

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