Fermionic vacuum polarization in a higher-dimensional global monopole spacetime
Journal Article
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· Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Departamento de Fisica-CCEN, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, 58.059-970, J. Pessoa, PB, C. Postal, 5.008 (Brazil)
In this paper we analyze the vacuum polarization effects associated with a massless fermionic field in a higher-dimensional global monopole spacetime in the 'braneworld' scenario. In this context we admit that our Universe, the bulk, is represented by a flat (n-1)-dimensional brane having a global monopole in an extra transverse three-dimensional submanifold. We explicitly calculate the renormalized vacuum average of the energy-momentum tensor, <T{sub A}{sup B}(x)>{sub Ren}, admitting the global monopole as being a pointlike object. We observe that this quantity depends crucially on the value of n, and provide explicit expressions to it for specific values attributed to n.
- OSTI ID:
- 21024086
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 76, Issue 12; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.125021; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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