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Quantum Fluctuations of Scalar Field in Conical Space

Chung-I Kuo

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9705041

Abstract

We consider vacuum polarization effect of a conformally coupled massless scalar field in the background produced by an idealized straight cosmic string. Using previous criterion we show the calculation of back reaction of the field to the metric in the context of semiclassical gravity theory is not valid , in some regions due to large quantum fluctuations in the conical space.

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