Ground state energy of a massive scalar field in the background of a cosmic string of finite thickness

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1999, Pages

  Bordag, M ^b  

^a Kazan State Pedagodical University   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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EID: 17044407404     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.064017     Document Type: Article

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